Hey, maybe we could get some of that funding because HP outsourced the
3000 to the bit bucket!
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From: Mark Wonsil [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:33 AM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] IBM starts fund to aid displaced workers
MARCH 02, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IBM will create a $25 million,
two-year training fund to assist employees who fear that their jobs are
at risk of being shipped away to lower-cost locations, company
executives said yesterday at IBM's PartnerWorld conference. The growing
clamor in the U.S. about jobs lost to outsourcing unnecessarily
begrudges the employment gains of "countries that are simply trying to
improve the standards of living of their people," IBM Chairman and CEO
Sam Palmisano said during a keynote address at the conference, which is
being held in Las Vegas.
Called the Human Capital Alliance, the fund will help workers in
positions likely to be affected by the outsourcing trend to retrain for
new jobs, ideally with IBM or one of its business partners, according to
IBM spokesman Clint Roswell. ... Full story:
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/story/0,10801,
9069
0,00.html?nas=AM-90690 or
http://tinyurl.com/yq223
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