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Highlights
for week ending October 14, 2000
- The Dallas Morning News Business Columnist Scotts Burns writes about
planning for retirement in an era when few companies offer traditional
defined-benefit pension plans. It's
up to you to define 401(k) contributions.
- IBM
invests in new chip plants
- A letter to J.R. MacDonald expressing concerns about IBM's intention
to target the medical security of IBM's loyal retirees. Part
1. Part
2.
- IBM,
a national treasure...
- The Alliance@IBM's "Think
Twice" newsletter is now posted on their Web site in Adobe
Acrobat format. Articles in the October issue include: IBM's 12-hour
day Work to Live; Don't Live to Work; CWA pact at Verizon yields big
gains; Getting our message out in Rochester MN; Without a Say; Temporary
Workers gain limited right to join unions; It's our Company...Let's
make it better; Thanks for the memories; and Fighting for pension protections.
(If Acrobat Reader is not installed on your system, you can download
it for free at Adobe's Web site).
- Al Gore Town Hall Question: What is your position on the impact of
cash pension buyouts that negatively impact middle age workers? We are
concerned with increased hours, competition with foreign labour, reduced
benefits with little time left for our families and our own educational
needs. See
Vice President Gore's response.
- The two employee-sponsored stockholder resolutions have just been
posted on the Alliance web site. The national Alliance@IBM/CWA is supporting
both of these resolutions. The web site has a form you can fill out
if you wish to become a co-sponsor of one of the resolutions. You may
only co-sponsor ONE resolution, and you must also own at least one share
of IBM stock. The completed form gets e-mailed to IBM. http://www.allianceibm.org
- Washington
Post: Pension Trend Painful to Some. "Fueled by recent General
Accounting Office reports and the ongoing complaints of a number of
IBM workers, the debate over cash-balance pension plans shows no sign
of abating." Comment
on the Washington Post article
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