Documents show IBM layoffs in North America now top 3,000

News about the latest “resource actions” continues to be leaked by affected workers at IBM to the union seeking to represent them.

The addition of two work group RA letters pushed the count to 45 work groups and more than 3,000 employees. Several hundred more are being cut worldwide.

However, IBM also has announced in recent days to open research centers in the Netherlands and France which will ultimately employ hundreds of people. That hiring news came after recent media and union reports of planned job cuts in Europe as well as Australia. The shifts are all part of what IBM calls a “rebalancing” of its work force to meet customer needs and to exploit new opportunities in such area as big data and cloud computing.

More “rebalancing” news is expected.

Lee Conrad, national coordinator for Alliance at IBM, says he doesn’t believe the end has come for the layoff news.

“I do believe there are more RA documents that we haven’t received,” he told WRALTechWire.

Media reports around the country, especially in New York, have confirmed job cuts. However, the geographic location of the affected employees is not disclosed in the RA documents, and IBM does not disclose how many employees it has by state or country.

“We do not know where all these workers are located based on RA docs,” Conrad says.

The latest group confirmed as being hit was Integrated Supply Chain Engineering in which 75 people were told to find jobs elsewhere within the company or leave.

A copy of the document was obtained by WRALTechWire.

Although hundreds of IBMers in RTP have been hit with RA noticed, according to a source familiar with the overall layoff picture, IBM has of Tuesday had filed no documentation with the state of North Carolina about any cuts.

Here is the latest list by work group and number of workers affected: