IBM workers face another round of cuts
Published: Sat, Nov. 15, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Sat, Nov. 15, 2008 01:22AM
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closeIBM is laying off 38 employees at its Research Triangle Park operations, the latest in a series of job cuts at Triangle technology companies.
IBM spokesman John Buscemi confirmed that the technology services giant recently notified workers that their jobs were being eliminated. IBM has about 11,000 employees in the Triangle.
Lee Conrad, national coordinator at Alliance@IBM, a union that wants to organize IBM workers, said the RTP job cuts were among 215 jobs company-wide that were eliminated in the company's Systems and Technology Group. Buscemi was unable to confirm that total.
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Conrad complained that some of the jobs aren't being eliminated but are instead being shifted to lower-cost overseas countries such as India and China. "As the old saying goes, there ought to be a law against it," he said.
Buscemi couldn't confirm if some jobs are being sent elsewhere.
Some of the RTP employees are being given 30 days to find a job elsewhere within IBM before departing, Buscemi said.
Last month IBM eliminated about 100 contract workers at RTP.
More than a half-dozen Triangle technology companies have announced job cuts since September, including industry giants such as Lenovo and Sony Ericsson. Some economists expect more are coming as spending on technology slows with the broader economy.
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