IBM to axe thousands in move to cheap overseas labour


'We expect many job cuts in Ireland, Germany and the UK in the coming months,' it quoted Lee Conrad, national co-ordinator for [email protected], saying. [email protected] represents the interests of IBM workers in the US.

IBM employs 20,000 workers in the UK and 21,000 in Germany, according to the article. 'The jobs have already started going in western Europe,' Conrad reportedly said, and there will be many more in the months ahead. 'They are being reassigned to eastern Europe, India and China.'


The expected European job cuts come on top of 5,000 recent layoffs at IBM in America. The US cuts brought the total number of redundancies on IBM's home turf to around 9,600 for the first three months of the year.

The layoffs come at a contentious time for IBM, which is in the running to receive billions of dollars worth of stimulus money from the US government.

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