IBM Shenzhen strike follow-up: More than 500 workers have opted to leave

Beijing News (reporter Lin Chiling intern Changtao) IBM Shenzhen Factory protection events continued to escalate. Yesterday, the reporter learned that IBM has fired 20 workers representatives, more than half of the workers have decided to accept severance compensation, which means that more than 500 workers will choose to leave IBM. Previously, Lenovo Group announced the acquisition of IBM X86 Server business, IBM's X86 Server Shenzhen factory will be taken over. 20 workers ' representatives were expelled. Chi Yi, a lawyer for IBM workers, told Beijing News yesterday that March 10 and 11th, IBM posted the announcement, a total of 20 workers were expelled. The reason is to violate the labor discipline, the expelled worker will not get a penny of severance payment. The reporter obtained March 10 an IBM dismissal notice, the announcement of IBM said: "There are 10 employees who leave the position of absenteeism, in the factory square illegal accumulation of stay, causing the company to stop production so far." The company decided to terminate the labor contract with 10 employees without giving any direct financial compensation. Chi Yi said, March 10, IBM's dismissal notice posted, the same day there are hundreds workers signed the separation agreement. By yesterday, nearly 500 workers had agreed to sign the exit agreement. Yesterday, the factory workers recruited 200 staff signatures, and elected negotiators, through negotiations to the IBM plant to make a request. "There are two main demands, one is to restore the dismissal of the employee's labor relations, the second is to hope that in the course of mergers and acquisitions, the workers involved in the major interests of the incident, factories and workers to negotiate negotiations." February 27, Lenovo Group announced the acquisition of IBM X86 Server business. IBM's X86 Server Shenzhen factory will be taken over by Lenovo Group. IBM has issued a notice to employees asking the factory staff to decide whether to resign or stay as a member of the Lenovo Group before March 12. There is a dispute over severance payments. From March 3 onwards, about thousands of workers in the vicinity of the company's building to launch an activist protest. The two sides promised no change. A staff member of IBM's Shenzhen company Planning department told Beijing News yesterday that employees who had been absent last week had begun to return to work in recent days. "We will continue to work together to ensure a smooth handover to Lenovo when we complete the sale of the X86 business," he said. We have taken disciplinary action against the actions of some employees during their refusal to work. "Although there is no legal provision to compensate employees who are unwilling to continue to work for Lenovo, IBM is ready to provide a suitable severance payment for these employees." The employee who chooses to continue to work for Lenovo, the related treatment overall unchanged. We hope that most employees will be able to choose to stay in Shenzhen Manufacturing Company. The staff replied. Lenovo also issued a statement pledging to fully receive and properly relocate employees from IBM's X86 server business and ensure that their salary and benefits are not lower than they were before.