It does change the 'point' considering they're reducing spending both in terms of workers and shareholder payouts. To not include, explicitly, that they reduced the dividends gives the reader the impression that the only thing to decrease here was money spent on wages, that workers bore the brunt of their financial problems.
I think so. The details a story of an Intel focusing it's resources instead of bumping it's stock price.
What’s the point? That you can’t fire people if you pay a divident?
To be blunt, yes. If you're comfortable enough to pay dividends then you're clearly not desperate enough to be doing layoffs.