IBM to open center in Dubuque, create 1,300 jobs

International Business Machines Corp. said Thursday it plans to open a technology service delivery center in Dubuque, Iowa, creating 1,300 jobs in the northeast part of the state.

[Are you kidding]

What about the 10% they layed off? How about all the contractors they made take a 10% pay cut??

[Aldarion]

IBM is trying to build anotrher parking lot and building in downtown Dubuque and add to the parking problem and ugly parking garages in downtown. They should have built on the west side of town but they want to monopolize the town clock square because they have a big ego thinking they can claim a heart of Dubuque property,the town clock area. They and these other big corps are trying tro take over the river front and downtown. Mcgraw Hill for example,who have onlyt modernistic blah architecture and nothing old fashionedely ornate,or Victorian.Dubuque should only have Victoirian architecture mainly.

[jennyt69]

Parking is your main concern? I understand you trying to keep your town beautiful but the problem lies with Dubuque itself. They are the ones that gave IBM the tax breaks to setup there and bowed over to them.
And consider all the people who are being terminated if they choose not to move to Dubuque to work. Why is it legal to force employees to move away from their homes and families when for 20 years IBM has forced the employees to work from home. I can't tell you the number of people who have lost their jobs. It's horrible and it needs to be stopped.

[Only me in 39047]

jennyt69 wrote:

Parking is your main concern? I understand you trying to keep your town beautiful but the problem lies with Dubuque itself. They are the ones that gave IBM the tax breaks to setup there and bowed over to them.
And consider all the people who are being terminated if they choose not to move to Dubuque to work. Why is it legal to force employees to move away from their homes and families when for 20 years IBM has forced the employees to work from home. I can't tell you the number of people who have lost their jobs. It's horrible and it needs to be stopped.

I agree with you. I am one of the ones that got ax'ed on April 27th. IBM 's CEO is the one who is ruining the company for his own greed along with his croonies! As long a Sam Palmisano is the CEO IBM will continue to decline. HE SUX plain and simple. When he terminated 400 jobs in Arizona the following week he got a 20% pay raise. Nice huh! Sammy needs to go!!!!!!!!

[jennyt69]

Only me in 39047 wrote:

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I agree with you. I am one of the ones that got ax'ed on April 27th. IBM 's CEO is the one who is ruining the company for his own greed along with his croonies! As long a Sam Palmisano is the CEO IBM will continue to decline. HE SUX plain and simple. When he terminated 400 jobs in Arizona the following week he got a 20% pay raise. Nice huh! Sammy needs to go!!!!!!!!

I agree. If IBM can't send the job overseas it is getting you to quit by sending you to Dubuque or Fishkill. Either way, the loyal, talented employees who have made IBM what is are the ones getting the shaft. IBM will regret the day they let Sam makes these decisions. It will come back to haunt them.

[Jack Dunwoody]

1300 jobs, a blatent lie. You can call the mayor and he will sidle away from that. The truth is Dubuquers were told they weren`t qualified. This all being covered up by the adminstration in Dubuque. The election that happened this week was pathetic. Very low turnout and all incumbants won and won big. The people in Dubuque are following this administration to an abyss of bad spending. The city council broke the open meeting laws of Iowa to give IBM $850,000 without public input. The city council has had so many conflicts of interest it`s impossible to count. Dubuque is blessed with great, but non voting people, and a machine for a city gang.