IBM Allegedly to Sell More Parts of the Company While Outsourcing to India, Microsoft Now Goes After Unions
They both have cash and debt problems
IBM is spreading fake news this week because of a crisis [1, 2, 3, 4] it is trying to distract from. The latest discussion/thread in thelayoff.com talks about storage at IBM being destined for a selloff:
Whether true or not, this is definitely plausible.
Meanwhile at Microsoft people are being forced to "quit" and contractors are being cut off, so why won't we also expect an intensified war on unionised staff? There's this article today (Tuesday US time) that says "Negotiations Between Microsoft And Unionized Workers Aren’t Going Well" and one can guess where this is going, right?
All the way back in 2022, Microsoft made waves in the video game industry by striking a legally binding agreement with Communications Workers of America (CWA), the union that now represents thousands of workers within the company. “Microsoft will remain neutral when Activision Blizzard employees express interest in joining a union, providing a clear path to collective bargaining for almost 10,000 workers,” read a joint release from CWA and Microsoft during a time when the latter was facing regulatory scrutiny over its then-proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard. At the time, it seemed like a match made in heaven, but two years later, workers find themselves stuck in bargaining hell.[...]
Aftermath reached out to Microsoft for more details, but the company did not reply as of this publishing.
Revisit the following from last summer: Microsoft Laying Off Staff in an Act of Retaliation and Union-Busting
Microsoft and IBM are both in desperate need of cuts. Also see: Coming Soon: Microsoft Fake Results, Mass Layoffs, and Silence About All the People Microsoft Pressured to "Quit" (So That They Don't Get Counted as Layoffs). █