This club is dedicated to allowing IBM Employees a forum for exchanging ideas about forming a labor union for the preservation of their rights.<br><br>All ...
Questions:<br>1)What percentge of employees in your area do you<br>think would support a union?<br>2)Are engineers/programmers eligible to join the ...
I am a 17+ year IBM tube jockey. Prior to that<br>I had been in several unions, including some of<br>the big ones, UAW, IBEW and RCIA.<br><br>I respectfully...
Mr. Cheese,<br><br>Thank you for your warning. However, there is nothing carved in stone that says that outstanding performers must be paid the same as poor ...
Beemer,<br><br>1) In all honesty, we have to recognize that IBM has traditionally been an anti-union culture. However, I have noticed significant support for a...
Cooch,<br><br>I heard that the Burlington workers are organizing June 7th as a "sickout" day to protest the new pension plan and the striping away of ...
According to the "IBM Notice of 1999 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement", Lou Gerstner's employment agreement provides for "an annual pension at age 60 from ...
If you are interested in a union and want some sound advice from someone that's been there. We tried this at Endicott. You would have to contact Lee Conrad ...
Yes. Lee Conrad has 23 years of experience attempting to establish a union in IBM.<br>His credentials are impeccable. This begs the question, "Why hasn't a ...
but you have to stop flapping your gums and do something; and there is only one way you will ever get their attention, "SHUT THEM DOWN"! They stand to gain so...
Accually I think that an employees stockholders assc. would be really effective and maybe easier<br>to implement. If we could vote all the shares of all the ...
We'd love to hear about Lee Conrad's experience and see what we can do to further his efforts. Until these posts appeared, I was unaware that Lee was already...
Not a bad idea, beemer. How do we get started?<br><br>I'm reluctant to abandon the idea of a union however. The issues, and the history of Three Finger Lou's ...
Been watchin you boys get mad, started, come together and question what you can do and how to do it. You are on track. You've achieved plenty already. ...
I can't help wonder what the hell Mr. Conrads motives could have been 23 years ago. We still had all of the things that have been lost in the 90s back then....
Being ahead of your time has it's price.<br>Lee began as spokesperson for the issues of the<br>time. They were such things as the poisoning of<br>the local ...
This suggestion is a good one but the current effectiveness is questionable. I do not know what<br>proportion of IBM stock is currently held by<br>employees,...
The motive for wanting a "union" 25 years ago in Endicott sprang from the working conditions faced by the founders of workers united. These people worked in a ...
Endicott has a long history of resistence. In fact workers united had a newsletter called RESISTOR.<br>IBM workers united for many years steadfastly remained...
Creating a union for IBM workers will not be an easy undertaking. Our peers must be concerned enough about the current anti-employee management trends to take...
Through the mailing we received, and the FAQs distributed by management, IBM executives maintain that the new pension plan is beneficial to most employees, and...
First of all unionblue deserves an internet round of applause for getting this club started. This is an important step in education and organizing our ...
Most of the discussion here has been focused on the recent changes in pensions. Maybe we should enumerate some of the other changes that have taken place of...
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