Some 1,300 workers at International Business Machines Corp. across the United States have received notice that their jobs are slated for elimination, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The Alliance at IBM, a union organization affiliated with the Communication Workers of America, said it had received information about the planned job actions from IBM employees around the country.

A spokesman for IBM said last month that it was "putting in place a series of actions to address our U.S. cost base."

Under IBM's normal procedures, the workers to be laid off have a set period of time to find another job. IBM had 354,000 employees worldwide at the end of the first quarter, according to the report.

Source: Xinhua