{"id":15180,"date":"2016-05-17T02:12:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15180"},"modified":"2016-05-17T02:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:14:55","slug":"smart-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15180","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;smart&#8221; IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Sanders&#8217; first husband was transferred to Essex Junction Vermont by IBM (I&#8217;ve been moved).  IBM had a research lab and electronics fabrication plant there &#8211; it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acinet.org\/oview6.asp?id=&#038;soccode=&#038;stfips=50&#038;from=state&#038;nodeid=12\">the largest private employer<\/a> in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, IBM unloaded the facility and another in New York to GlobalFoundaries, a Dubai owned chip manufacturer.   IBM gave them the factories PLUS $1.5 billion to unload their responsibilities (probably unfunded retiree promises?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/local\/2015\/07\/01\/globalfoundries-takes-essex-junction\/29564659\/\">Global Foundary takes over<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the deal was announced, IBM said GlobalFoundaries would retain the valuable highly paid IBM workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.wptz.com\/news\/globalfoundries-announces-layoffs-in-ny-vt\/35800648\">They lied<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While they claim there won&#8217;t be job cuts, it is pretty clear from the description that GlobalFoundaries is replacing expensive former IBM employees with lower cost replacements. Essex Junction is pretty close to the Canadian non-border.<\/p>\n<p>An Islamic country in the Middle East (probably backed by China) making IBM&#8217;s microprocessors used in phones &#8211; What, me worry?   Maybe Trump should replace his Carrier story with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Sanders&#8217; first husband was transferred to Essex Junction Vermont by IBM (I&#8217;ve been moved). IBM had a research lab and electronics fabrication plant there &#8211; it is the largest private employer in Vermont. A year ago, IBM unloaded the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-collapse-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15180"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15188,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions\/15188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}