Flightdeck EBA Campaign

Further Update on Redundancies

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Published on Friday, 28 May, 2010

IBM have now announced all the redundancies for their Baulkham Hills Flight Deck operations. A total of 19 people jobs will be abolished which is 25% of the Flightdeck workforce.

All 19 employees are highly skilled. The following contracts will be losing these skilled staff. IBM is not replacing them in China or elsewhere, they are abolishing the jobs all together:

• Westpac

• Qantas

• MLC

• Qantas

• the Australian Federal Government

It is the Union’s view that this inevitably means these clients will suffer a reduction in service as long term experience staff are sacked. Particular hard hit will be Westpac.

Support for the following contracts will be offshored to China:

• FIS

• Myer

• Cathay Pacific

• Bada