Hello everyone....welcome to the new mellinium.<br>Looks like we all did a great job for our customers and for IBM. Nothing much to report anywhere.<br>Now as ...
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winnipeg1919
Jan 4, 2000 3:45 pm
Our local has added a copy of our benefits book to our website. Those of you who are interested in seeing the sort of benefits and contracts that IBM has been...
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chuck_frost
Jan 6, 2000 2:02 am
One of the main instigators of today's problems is Anita Ross. She implemented many of the policies that effect all of our benefits and the ones that we ...
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mes_49
Jan 9, 2000 5:33 pm
I think all of the HR people are trained in heartlessness as a prerequisite for their jobs. Anita was around when the decisions were made to start the slow ...
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mes_49
Jan 17, 2000 1:39 am
It is time to take more action. The year is new and nothing looks like it will change unless we force it to change.<br><br>Get to at least one trusted IBM ...
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ibm_service_guy
Jan 18, 2000 3:37 am
Wait till the financial results come out and then hang on. Bet the results are way down...and that is what the VPP will be too....and likely more reasons to ...
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winnipeg1919
Jan 18, 2000 3:24 pm
Why wait when you can start now?<br><br>If your site is anything like mine, you have a lot of people who are already dissatisfied with their PBCs.<br><br>We...
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ibm_service_guy
Jan 21, 2000 3:40 am
The real joke is yet to come. At the first of May there will be some attempt at delivering a raise for a very few in the work unit. It really won't matter what...
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borrowashgbr
Jan 22, 2000 2:27 am
I had a look at the ISM contract. If I read it correctly, at age 70 all their benefits (eyglass, dental, etc, cease. Could this be a look into our future?...
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winnipeg1919
Jan 25, 2000 10:29 pm
Actually, all of our benefits cease at retirement. When we were negotiating the contract, our union tried to get access to benefits after retirement. The...
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idaho_blue
Jan 31, 2000 6:01 am
Well that doesn't sound right! I'd have thought IBM would be trying to let people know that it values its employees. Well, some companies aren't cheapskates....
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winnipeg1919
Jan 31, 2000 2:22 pm
The company likes to talk the talk, but not walk the walk. Remember long ago when IBM was a "full employment" company? That lasted as long as times were...
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ibm_service_guy
Feb 3, 2000 1:12 am
I talked with three different managers today and was somewhat relieved to find that all of them were to a significant degree mad at IBM. They all feel just as...
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winnipeg1919
Feb 7, 2000 9:36 pm
You got that right. When the bosses tried to get our union to accept the VPP we looked at the games that had been played with the "profit sharing" plan that we...
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chuck_frost
Feb 12, 2000 1:25 pm
It was brought to my attention this week that IBM very quietly defeated the ISM union in Alberta. There seems to be a lot of gloating going on in IBM over this...
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ibm_service_guy
Feb 27, 2000 2:01 am
I see that London Life employees that were released in the past won a major battle against their employer. London Life felt that they could release long term...
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ibm_service_guy
Mar 1, 2000 2:34 am
I guess everyone is so happy with their VPP that they are happy as happy can be now. The troops are busy helping make more profits for 2000 so the exec's can...
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unionjack1999
Mar 6, 2000 6:15 pm
Are any of the Canadian IBM sites for sale? <br>Since IBM Rochester was sold, there have been<br>questions about other sites being sold too. <br>Are there any...
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winnipeg1919
Mar 7, 2000 5:23 pm
We have heard some rumours of a major re-org coming, but nothing specific....
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ibm_service_guy
Mar 9, 2000 2:16 am
Articles like this in newspapers really stand out.<br>It is important that we get some messages out and published.<br><br><a...
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hring2
Mar 16, 2000 7:38 pm
I'm a new member and I just wanted to test the process of posting messages...
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retired_1998_ca
Mar 16, 2000 8:30 pm
I need your help in compiling some legal evidence. When we made the DB/DC decision, there was a clear implication from IBM that the base years would continue...
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retired_1998_ca
Mar 16, 2000 8:43 pm
Does anyone have a copy of the CHOICEMAKER software that IBM gave us to use when making the DC vs DB decision? I have my original disks, but they won't load ...
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ibm_service_guy
Mar 17, 2000 2:35 am
A copy has surfaced and will find it's way to the appropriate people. It has been tested and works under Windows 95. There are certainly some words in the...
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naut_ace
Mar 17, 2000 3:43 pm
More strength to you. I believe that the current attitude by IBM to the Base Pay period is implicitely dishonest. Whether due to bad planning or greed, they...
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retired_1998_ca
Mar 18, 2000 9:01 pm
We all have a choice. We can sit back and wait for IBM to give us what is due, or we can take action to make it happen. When I retired 2 years ago, I was told...
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naut_ace
Mar 19, 2000 1:27 am
I know that there are many employees that have been given the platitudes referred to previously, but lately I do not hear them anymore. Now we are beginning to...
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idaho_blue
Mar 19, 2000 9:04 pm
To my knowledge, ISM Alberta was not unionised. (Although it should have been, the way the workers in that province are treated.) However, ISM Manitoba had a...
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busyb_48
Mar 20, 2000 3:11 am
I have been trying to warn people (and not just those in the DB clasification, but all IBMers) that IBM has grown cold and inhumane. As far back as 1991 (maybe...
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busyb_48
Mar 27, 2000 10:45 pm
More large holdings of IBM shares are putting their votes behind the representatives who will demand that IBM treat employees properly at the upcoming ...
