Note there are non-message pages for South Africa and Shareholders. See also archive topic “How IBM is managed”
[2424][2425][2426][2427][2428][2429][2430][2431][2433][2435][2436][2440] South Africa update. Parallels with UK.
[2418][2420][2421][2422][2423] Vapour profits contnd.
[2380][2381][2382][2383][2415] On US accounting of pensions. US pension regulation changes.
[2318][2320] IBM raises the bar on stock options.
[2313][2314][2315][2316] IBM US cash-balance plan illegal.
[2312] IBM Korea bribery.
[2226][2228][2237][2238] Danish IBM Pensions association.
[2204][2209] US equivalent of AMIPP?
[2172][2174] Reminder of link to US IBM pension/health campaigners.
[2170][2171] GM puts $18.5 Billion into its US pension fund.
[2088][2089] SEC civil action against IBM US?
[2045][2050][2059][2064][2110] IBM Korea indicted.
[2032] IBM Downward progress.
[1979][1980][1981][1984]Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) report. IBM conscience in general.
[1961][1965][1968][1973][1976] IBM taxes, Japan and UK.
[1926][1949][1950] South Africa latest.
[1811] Securities and Exchange Committee
[1689][1704][1705][1706][1707][1708][1785][1786][1791][1792][1793][1797][1806][1807][1808] IBM US loses pensions Law Suit. Alliance Website.
[1862][1863][1875][1959][1960][1963] Cash-Balance US pension plans. Age discrimination.
[1561] [1564][1565][1567][1572][1574][1578] US Cash-Balance plans Just speculation?
[1551] General Electric cuts the link between vapour profit and executive pay.
[1403] Share price
[1397][1886][1935] Shareholder resolutions
[1512] Canadian retirees fight back.
[1497] [1558] [1805] Weekly highlights from the US
[1467] [1468][1469][1473][1474] [1476][1477][1486] [1488][1492][1498] [1499][1500] [1504] IBM on funding. Reasons for IBM shares transferred to US pension scheme.
[1384] [1385] [1386] [1402] Shares to improve IBM US pensions fund.
[1379] [1380] Peter Plavchan wins union-activism case against IBM. Is sacked for incompetence after 21 years of adequate performance.
[1343] Underfunding - see also topic Opinions.
[1330] "IBM has to plug a gap $5-6bn in the US pension fund"
[1167] Plans for a demo in the U.S..
[1117]Television Interview.
[1111]Sale of Hard Drive division to Hitachi.
[1089]South Africa. Forceful regulator and his influence.
[953][977][984] [1037] [1040] [1072][1130] [1274]Reminder where to find U.S. weekly highlights. And some extracts.
[1063][1064][1065]The Don Parry shareholder resolution.
[1032] Decline of the IBM U.S. pension fund.
[925][926][927][928][931][1004] Joseph Lane's share options (wrongly recorded).
[906]Stolen identity on U.S. message boards?
[892][894][895] Good News from South Africa.
[870][872][873][874][875][876][880][882] [889] Pension cuts necessary to retain competitiveness? Bad news coming?
[865][866][868]" I can confirm that there are some very concerned people at present."
[848] How the Germans do it.
[797] Corrections, giving proper descriptions of IBM US pension plans.
[779] [780] [781] [788] Link to US site, and extracts. More layoff comments.
[762] [798] [815] [817] [842] [844] Stockholder resolution
[735] [736] [737] Layoffs in IBM US.
[596] [775] SA, Links to articles.
[593] Extract from Annual Report (US)
[566] SA government and nearest equivalent of our Ombudsman think highly of splitting the surplus.
[565] SA. Link to pension funds administrator comments.
[564] US - "Four years ago my health benefits cost me nothing. This year $184 a month for less coverage."
[563] "member surplus account" and "employer surplus account" split.
[535] Link to Poughkeepsie Journal - background to IBM US pensions.
[450] Update to SEC.
[445] EMEA has other benefit differences.
[444] European "mandatory union" companies have index linked pensions.
[441] IBM Netherlands pensions. "Do we have a claim in Europe?"
[436] "Armonk is the driving force behind all the financial engineering."
[431] More on why the US is relevant.
[430] Encouraging US participation.
[429] US material is relevant.
[427] Is US material muddying the waters?
[421] Link to Lou Gerstner's contract
[412] Bribery in Argentina
[411] Link for sales of shares by top US executives.
[401] US Cost of Living Increase.
[398] US pension increase for some
[390] Continued effort to put resolutions at the shareholder meeting.
[343] A US view - "The tone of any company is set at the top".
[330] About Mr Gerstner's total take from IBM.
[307] About summary of South Africa story.
[305] Lou Gerstner's sale of shares the previous week.
[303] "Bill Gates as IBM chairman?"
[298] UK/US double taxation.
[290] Removed by Webmaster
[283] Bribery in Argentina - Business Conduct Guidelines
[282] Bribery in Argentina
[268] South Africa "It is still hard to accept. It was such a fine company" "The Company has clearly changed since my day,..."
[259] Another news clipping re South Africa.
[258] "...what is being done with pension funds is a systematic and worldwide manipulation which has 3 objectives..."
[257] Link to summaries, mostly from the US.
[238] Was an option for shareholders to co-sponsor resolution at shareholders meeting.
[232] Two pages from the press, about South African situation.
[194] Note from a co-sponsor
[174] Link to website where (if a shareholder) you can co-sponsor resolutions for the shareholder meeting.
[139] Check with European colleagues that their pensions index-linked?
[129] The US view - "He is after our pension money"
[058] Is the problem limited to the UK and US?
[007] Welcome to the struggle (US IBMers have been struggling)