It was bound to happen somewhere. The union representing some 5,000 IBM employees whose jobs are planned for offshore outplacement is considering taking on the company and asking employees to refuse to train their replacements. "'We are working with our members to organize to fight this anyway we can,' said Linda Guyer, president of Alliance@IBM, an Endicott, N.Y.-based union of roughly 6,000 IBM workers (up by more than 1,000 members since this past spring). 'We think it's not only unfair to the employees; it's unfair to the U.S. economy.'"
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