Volunteers, Unions, Retiree sections, augmenting the register, member choices etc.
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[2556][2557][2559][2560][2562][2563][2564][2566][2567][2568][2569][2570][2571][2572][2573][2574][2575][2576] AMIPP elections?
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[2473][2474][2475][2476][2477] Why not militancy. Social survey methods.
[2419] IBM UK Health Insurance versus Standard Life.
[2411] "IBM - The Real Facts" awareness campaign?
[2305] Benefit gained from emailing an MED.
[2280] A message from AMIPP covering recent forum topics.
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[2268][2269][2270][2272][2276][2277][2278][2280][2564][2565][2566][2567][2568] Validation of Anonymous Contributions?
[2201] What suggested? Action plan for AMIPP. See this thread in "How IBM is Managed"
[2173][2177][2179][2185][2187][2210][2284][2307] Grey voting power
[2165][2167] Basic objectives.
[2158][2159][2160][2161][2164][2166][2168][2169][2262][2279][2303] Website admin. Dubious posts.
[2137][2143][2144][2146] AMIPP (non) action.
[2090][2092][2093][2096][2104][2106] Post less "look how bad IBM is" news? Rattling the cage.
[2081][2082][2107][2116] Who is in control of the message board? Prune at Jan 2004.
[2064][2068] IBM Korea a sidetrack?
[1976][1990][1999][2000][2003] Message board a waste of time without actions. "Is there anything we can do to protect the value of our pensions other than..." Poll about action? "What is needed are activists to ..."
[1899][1900][1901][1902][1903] Messages in date/time sequence?
[1883][1893][1894][1918] Restoring contacts between old colleagues. Spyware
[1881] Opportunity to join US case against IBM.
[1844] [1845][1869] Financial Advisers
[1803] Works Council. Information & Consultation
[1659][1667] Leaving IBM early. What to do with pension rights.
[1649][1650][1651][1652][1653][1654][1655][1787][1788][1789][1790][1794][1795][1804][1812][1813] Transfer values and the merits of transferring a deferred pension out of our scheme...
[1647][1648] Experience with the Benefits Agency. (See also GMP in Data section)
[1633][1634][1635][1639] Contacting Brian Marks as a trustee. What might be told/deduced.
[1601] Was C-Plan/M-Plan a merge that required a ballot?
[1580][1581][1587][1591][1597][1636] Has the mood changed? Direct-action wing?
[1548] [1549][1550] Website dying somewhat.
[1471][1478] Retiree club minutes.
[1542] [1546] What are the retirement offers?
[1421] [1422] [1423][1425][1426][1427][1428][1429] N-Plan. Better off if not left to IBM?
[1455][1457][1470][1472][1475][1547] Should I take the package? Risks of scheme closure. Employee extras. Quality of life.
[1400] [1405] [1406] [1408] Website Admin, Gerstner book.
[1399] Share blunder
[1375][1600][1870][2283] Notices of pruning.
[1519] [1520][1521][1598] Should I transfer my money out of the IBM scheme?
[1332] [1333] [1339] [1340] [1344] [1356] [1360] Ways around confidentiality?
[1323] [1325] [1327] [1337] Ill health pension.
[1322] Check on V-plans.
[1293] [1295] [1296] [1297] [1298] [1299] [1300] [1301] [1303] [1304] [1305] [1306] [1307] [1308] [1309] [1310] [1311] [1312] [1313] [1317] Avoiding 40% tax. Divorce. VAT limit. Sole trader. Limited company. Live outside UK does not work. Envy is driving force. Gerstner greed. "Can you imagine Sir Edwin ever standing in front of us and attempting to explain what happened?"
[1288] [1290] [1291] Steel workers win with union support. "following procedures is worse than pointless because it gives credibility to corporate privileges which ought to be unacceptable."
[1271] [1272] [1273] [1277] [1279] [1280] "Should I worry?" IBM UK wound up? Alternatives to worrying. Doubting 70% increases. What is your bargain with IBM.
[1267] [1268]Links to European union activity.
[1243] [1244] [1248] [1249] [1258] Immediate vs deferred pension. Deferree experience. "As you can guess that IBM just (metaphorically) shrugged!!! "
[1245] [1341] "a disaffected community of several thousand actives could have a big, big influence" "the ONLY thing that will cause IBM to change anything is public criticism and embarrassment"
[1216] [1217] "We need a television program." "a licence to do whatever they want that fits within the loose 'legal' accounting frame"
[1208] [1213] [1218] [1220][1221] Write to trustees?
[1178] [1201] Change of notice board to AMIPP.
[1168][1170] Need for union, link to Union site. Constructive dismissal.
[1144][1145][1147][1153] Q & As on the deficit and actions to protect oneself.
[1132] "we should be negative and very angry."
[1120] About looking for employment after IBM.
[1110][1115] Active recruitment to AMIPP (was AIUP) ?
[1101] [1102] [1105] [1106] [1107] [1109][1112] [1113]Litigation by members now?
[1091] [1092] [1095] [1096] [1097] [1098] [1099] BA pensioners had a success with litigation. Why aren't we on that path?
[943][1019] [1020] Updates from the Ombudsman's Office on progress with our complaints.
[971][972][974][975][976][978][979][983]Distribution problems for Newsletter - email IDs failing.
[980]Association of Members of IBM UK Pension Plans (AMIPP)
[968]Deadline for Pickering Review contributions
[959][964]Allegience, Persistent Hacker Attacks
[960]Where to find MIL 785
[1167] Plans for a demo in the U.S..
[905][952]"Employees and retirees should act with common cause."
[910][911][912][913][914][918][919][920][921][923][924][929][933][952] Time for a change of strategy?
[943][946] [949]Ombudsman's Office resources.
[897] [900][901][902][904][907][916][917][922][936]AIUP (Became Association of Members of IBM UK Pension Plans - AMIPP)
[858][859][861][863][864][867][869][886][888][898] [899][908][909]"Are things really this bad?", "Let's start behaving like grown-ups"
[814] [816] [825] [828] [830] [834] [838] [839] What about some more direct action like…. Agreement, reactions… Little progress in the year. Our advert in press.
[829] [836] [837] Sue IBM over breach of contract?
[824] [826] [830] [834] [838] Website reaching those affected? Newspaper advert. Intel story.
[814] [816] [825] [828] Lack of progress.
[800] Researcher would like help with “on the effect technology has on business ethics.”
[762] [798] [815] [817] Stockholders meeting 2002
[679] [806] General election over – time to write Alistair Darling.
[678] Introducing the Complaints page.
[667] Warning of possible impersonation in posting.
[666] A US position on “who owns the funds”.
[664] Gerstner response to the letter to him.
[655] Trade Union as a focal point.
[648] [650] [654] [658] A journalist, Gill Wadsworth, wants to hear your views.
[647] IBM & Unions
[645] “What is the best thing to do?” “I dread the third option - do nothing!”
[643] “I am the MSF/ITPA Rep for Hursley.” “IBM's treatment of its senior employees over the past 10 years has been appalling and continues to be so.”
[641] More on reduced health benefits.
[639] [644] [659] Stockholders meeting.
[636] “cuts the pension that employees will receive by 10% at a stroke.”
[621] [622] Query where original on Unions is, and answer.
[616] Maybe the alleged tax evasion(s) by IBM will get Mr G in the end?
[614] [628] Need for a union, concerted action.
[609] “only a concerted action by many employees and retirees acting together may, possibly, work”
[608] Need unions - “we are victims of a planned strategy set out a decade ago”
[604] Sign on to a letter to Lou Gerstner
[587] Calling Data Sciences
[575] Back to basics - pensions are deferred pay.
[562] "I am in favour of action. Count me in."
[559] "I would like IBM to make a formal legally binding commitment...."
[558] Request from Webmaster for people to help.
[549] "We should be acquainting our Euro MEPs with the facts."
[548] "a group effort is needed if we are to make progress"
[544] "I would be satisfied with a public statement from IBM that..."
[542] "I would be satisfied with increases of the lesser of RPI or 5% paid annually."
[541] Kevin Waller usually replies promptly.
[537] "What we have to avoid is a jihad - we just want a result"
[533] Get IBM to deal with us as a group.
[527] Proposed association as a form of trade union?
[516] Need to use Internal Disputes Resolution Process.
[507] Comment on a newsletter.
[506] "want to form a communications working party?"
[503] "I never thought I would ever feel this way towards IBM"
[502] On uniformity of conditions for both "sections" of a plan.
[493] "We have been quiet for too long"
[425] Visibility of the site to search engines.
[409] "...special interest subgroup of a union?"
[379] Considering the formation of a "C-Planners Association".
[375] "I would certainly support exploratory discussion..." "I no longer trust IBM. (What a shocking statement after 30 years with IBM)"
[370] Doubts about Retirees' Club support - "the Company would like nothing more than a cast-iron excuse to withdraw the increasingly limited funding of the Retirees' Clubs.."
[368] Hopeful of "..We the Complainants to meet with Jim Lamb".
[361] "...bad news if communication is shut down by distrust..."
[351] Greenock Focal Point
[340] "If you can't get even get angry"
[327] "get even" not "get mad"
[316] Propose "Get Mad" and course of action.
[297] Using internal procedures. Writing to the trustees.
[279] Cynical about writing to trustees.
[277] Suggested cataloging of who has done what. "...as many as possible should complain formally..."
[263] On the 'discretionary' nature of increases.
[253] A way of finding out the names of those who have retired?
[252] Offer of template for A5 leaflets to be distributed on retiree trip.
[251] Retirees section unwilling to inform members. Suggestion to use local press.
[242] Suggested distribution of URL via Retirees' Clubs.
[240] Surprise at not learning about this earlier.
[212] Notice of Retirees Club (London Branch) AGM on Jan 30th 2001
[206] Related to questions for a technical specialist.
[205] Opportunity to put specific questions to a technical specialist on pensions.
[188] How to remove double posting
[180] Potential actuarial help.
[161] "...the majority of us have been very passive up to now & trusting that our best interests are being looked after.."
[152] Progress report, mid-October 2000
[123] What would be the best outcome?
[109] ITPA Union are offering to help.
[088] Register without web access, answer.
[086] Register without web access?
[081] We only email to people who actively register.
[080] Another source of email addresses.
[079] Possible source of email addresses.
[078] Suggested change to mission statement.
[070] Please encourage those you inform to register.
[069] Appalled at company behaviour. Suggest we all inform as many people as we can.
[056] Some way to get hold of a list of members?
[036] Pensioners clubs should take this further.
[030] "Congratulations to all those who may have helped get this website up and running"
[023] Announcement of start of the register.
[022] Employees should be concerned as well as retirees.
[015] "The more voices that are heard..."
[014] "The more voices are heard..."
[013] Volunteer for Membership Secretary
[008] Have we made any contacts with Barclays pensioners?