ZD Net reported that more than 1,000 workers at the
server-making IBM ISTC factory in Shenzhen, Guangdong, staged strikes
and protested against the company's lump sum severance package.
According to a Shenzhen TV channel's report, IBM ISTC, one
of the strategic manufacturing bases of IBM global integrated supply
chain, laid out two choices for the workers: either "willingly" leave
IBM before March 12 with compensation plus an extra 6,000 yuan, or stay
and "automatically" become Lenovo employees.
In the latter scenario, the
workers get to keep the same amount of compensation but without the
6,000 yuan. Neither plan is in accordance with the labor laws in China,
according to the report.
Workers were chanting and marching within the factory compound and
are accusing IBM for unilaterally terminating working contracts without
proper compensation.
On January 23, 2014, Lenovo announced that it had purchased IBM's X86
server business for US$2.3 billion. The deal, said Lenovo's CEO Yang
Yuanqing in another report by NetEase, brings Lenovo an extra US$5 billion in revenue, and expand its X86 server market share from the 6th to the 3rd in the world.
Source : Tempo
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