Former IBM workers are gathering for their first reunion June 11 at the Heritage Museum Center on Washington Avenue in Endicott from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The free reunion on the second floor of the museum is sponsored by retired IBM employees.

Attendees will be treated to tours and IBM documentary movies.  No pre-registration is required.

The reunion comes as a group advocating for former workers and their children question a recent study on birth defects in children of IBM workers exposed to Tricholoethylene.

The Center for Public Environmental Oversight says the $3.2 million study by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health is flawed with information taken from people who recently moved into the contaminated area and had little exposure to TCE while some long-time former workers and their children or information about employees who passed away were not included in the study.

 

 

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