The Yahoo! Clubs have been the catalyst for the employee rebellion
against IBM's pension and medical "theft." This Web site
is provided as a service to IBM employees and friends, investors,
and others who don't have the time to follow the large volume of postings
on the Yahoo! clubs.
In addition to Yahoo! Clubs postings, this site provides links to
articles in the press (both on-line and print publications) and to
related Web sites.
This site is updated weekly, normally on Sunday evening. Summary
links for prior weeks are available using the links at the left side
of the page. Please note that older links sometimes suffer from "link
rot"they may be broken.
Important notice: This site is not affiliated in any way with
the IBM Corporation, nor with any other organization.
A personal note: In no way does the editor of this site wish
to disparage IBM or its employees. A number of us on the "Yahoo!"
IBM pension and union boards have long, successful careers with IBM,
always working towards growing the company and increasing value to stakeholders.
We are not out to "pound on IBM." Ideally, we would like
to return IBM to some resemblance of the dignity, honor and respect
which it enjoyed in the past. By way of example, consider that IBM used
be among the leaders in the "Top 100 Companies to Work For",
but is now entirely absent from that list.
Toward that end, we discuss a number of company actions and practices,
along with the behaviors, attitudes and motivations of certain leaders.
Along the way we share and debate articles in the media, which help
explain the above. We also work on understanding legislation and regulations
which provide employee protections.
As a result, we sometimes takes certain actions. To date, these have
included: appearances in local & major national print media; appearances
on local & major national television programs; attendance &
participation in Congressional hearings; authoring & gathering support
for stockholder resolutions; conferencing with the EEOC and DOL.
This is not to say that all the above have cast IBM in the best possible
light. We truly wish it were otherwise, and would like nothing more
than to appear in these situations talking about the fair and
just actions of IBM. We realize however that employees (past,
current and future), the press and our public officials need a true
picture of what has happened.
Our objective is a positive one: rebuild IBM's integrity and increase
value to its stakeholders! As a way of understanding our viewpoint,
may we suggest you read these articles about what's
going on at IBM written by major main stream publications.