IBM Gets Back at Workers Who Won Overtime Lawsuit

Apparently still fuming over having to fork over $65 million to settle a lawsuit by technical support employees who charged the company cheated them out of overtime, IBM discovered a way to pay them back. It will be reclassifying 7,600 of the workers as being eligible for overtime, however, it will also be cutting their pay by 15 percent. Despite IBM's claims that overtime would make up for the salary cut, internal IBM documents contradict those claims and indicate that many will lose money.

The move has outraged the workers, according to CWA Local 1701/Alliance@IBM, whose website is overflowing with their reaction: "Thank you IBM for helping me to awaken to the greediness of the corporate world. . .At first I did not want to believe that the company I work hard for was driving me out, but it becomes more obvious as time goes on. This is complete retaliation taken out on the employees," said one 12-year employee.