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According to the Wall Street Journal, IBM will be sending out another slew of pink slips, this time targeting their global business services department.  The IBM employees’ union sent out a warning to workers that the layoffs are expected to be handed down as early as tomorrow. 

This latest round of layoffs comes only a few short months after over four thousand employees lost their jobs in January.  Those cuts affected their software, sales, semiconductor and finance departments.  IBM is expected to outsource many of the positions to India in an effort to save money on salaries.  This is not due to financial turmoil since IBM reported a strong fourth quarter and has recently been rumored to be in talks in order to acquire Sun Microsystems, a popular manufacturer of storage solutions.

As of right now, an official number has yet to be released on the expected number of employees that will lose their job.  Some unions have found with offense with IBM and the way that they tend to dodge layoff notification laws.

Read: [ZDNet]