Marcus Courtney
Marcus Courtney
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The Alliance at IBM is still an active campaign, but we've not been able to build enough support to get to the point to have a vote, ... But the pension changes there, or the cutbacks and pension changes just announced at Hewlett Packard show the need for unions. They're unilateral, with no one in position to speak for the employees being affected.
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It's a classic example of what always happens when workers have issues with management,
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Clearly, the pixie dust for tech workers has worn off,
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If employers are seeing less increases in their healthcare costs, those savings are not passed on to employees but mostly shifted into the bottom line to please shareholders.
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Serious red flags were raised about the fact that the only customer service facility eliminated was the one trying to organize in a very anti-union company,
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We've been monitoring the online bulletin boards and responding with e-mail messages. But, to be honest with you, our overtures haven't lead to any kind of concrete contacts.