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.

IBM have informed individuals at their Baulkham Hills Flight Deck that they are losing their jobs. So far 16 employees have been told there jobs will be abolished.

Workplace tribunal rules against Big Blue.

IBM has begun bargaining with the Australian Services Union (ASU) following a failed attempt to overturn orders to negotiate.

In a world first, IBM have agreed to bargain with the Australian Services Union for a collective agreement. Last night IBM issued a notice to all their Baulkham Hills Flightdeck employees informing them that they intend to bargain for a collective agreement.

In a statement issued late this afternoon, computing giant IBM said it will engage in good faith bargaining with the Australian Services Union.

Files Fair Work Australia appeal.

IBM has appealed a Fair Work Australia (FWA) order to negotiate pay increases, penalties rates and redundancy packages with its union members.

IBM has filed an appeal and stay of determination with Fair Work Australia over the industrial relations tribunal’s judgement that the technology giant negotiate with the Australian Services Union in good faith over the rights of IBM workers it represents.

IBM has failed to meet an ultimatum set by the Australian Services Union (ASU) to agree on a date to negotiate a collective employee agreement.

The ASU last Friday successfully won the right to have IBM negotiate directly with the union on a number of matters. The ASU set the deadline after IBM said it needed to ask for legal advice on what it should do, according to the union.

"Fair Work Australia determined that the ASU has a right to represent the IBM workers and a majority of people at the Baulkham Hills flight deck want an enterprise agreement, so under the Fair Work Laws, IBM has to negotiate with us 'in good faith'," ASU spokesperson Sally McManus told ZDNet Australia.

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The Australian Services Union (ASU) claimed today that IT giant IBM is planning to offshore jobs from a number of its operations centres to China and India.

The union had been contacted by a number of employees who informed it of the move, according to the union's branch secretary Sally McManus. The workers had said the changes will affect around 150 jobs from systems operation centres located in Baulkham Hills and Cumberland Forest in Sydney, as well as Clayton in Melbourne. The positions would be moving to offshore centres located in Bangalore, India and Shen zhen, China, McManus said.

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