Highlights for Week Ending May 6, 2000

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• Covert middle management thoughts: http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmpension/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmpension&sid=12201113&mid=29823
  
  
• IBM will screw you anyway they can, even after you are dead:
  http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmpension/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmpension&sid=12201113&mid=29825
  
  
• Assignments in other states, tax implications: http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmpension/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmpension&sid=12201113&mid=29864
  
  
• “Lou’s Shadow” billion-dollar question for Lou: http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmpension/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmpension&sid=12201113&mid=29871
  
  
• “Lou’s Shadow” comments on board of directors: http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmpension/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmpension&sid=12201113&mid=29904
  
  
• Treasury Takes Serious Look at Pension-Payout Choices: http://www.msnbc.com/news/403266.asp?sym=ibm#BODY
  
  
• IBM Saskatchewan Union effect on how layoffs are handled:
  http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmunion/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmunion&sid=12201113&mid=6102
  
  
• SPEEA Attends the Boeing Shareholders' Meeting: http://www.speea.org/Issues/Board_of_dir_summary.html
  
  
• Where can you hire a skilled young computer programmer who will work long hours without protest and who can't quit for a better-paying job?
  http://www.nydailynews.com/2000-05-03/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-65344.asp
  
  
• Letter from Jimmy to the NYS governor questioning whether IBM stockholder’s meeting format was legal under New York State law: http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmpension/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmpension&sid=12201113&mid=30030 and http://messages.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ibmpension/bbs?action=m&tid=ibmpension&sid=12201113&mid=30031