Posted on 08/28/2020 2:44:29 PM PDT by karpov
Boeing is seeking to increase black US employees throughout the company by 20 percent and mandate benchmarks for hiring people of color, Chief Executive Dave Calhoun told employees in a memo on Friday reviewed by Reuters.
US corporations have become more responsive to complaints related to racial equality following a summer of sweeping anti-racism protests over the slaying of black people by police.
The changes at Boeing, a stalwart defense contractor with its corporate headquarters in Chicago and largest factories in Washington state and South Carolina, appeared to mark the first concrete steps by the planemaker to address the issue.
“We understand we have work to do,” Calhoun said in the memo, which was released on the 57th anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech and included references to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on Sunday.
Boeing declined to provide its current number of black employees or a timeline for the new target.
The planemaker separately has had to lay off thousands of workers as it grapples with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the 17-month-old grounding of the 737 MAX after two fatal crashes.
In the memo, Calhoun said the company would establish an internal Racial Justice think-tank to guide its policies.
On June 23, a manager at Boeing’s Everett factory found “racist symbols” at his work station, according to an email from Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Stan Deal to employees seen by Reuters. The manager is black, a person familiar with the incident said.
The company launched an internal investigation and referred the matter to police, Deal said, calling the incident “disheartening and a stark reminder of how far our society has to go.”
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Hiring a bunch of unqualified diversity cases will lead to failure and cull out all employees.
These will be assembly types, that likely will not know the job and will recieve OJT from honkies that they will resent and possibly retaliate against.
Makes my dislike of Airbus products come under review.
Brings to mind the old saying
Remember that Submarine/Airplane/ etc was built by the LOWEST bidder.
They kind of negated that by basically turning all of one kind into one and bid low with all kinds of Change Orders built into the contract which allows the low bid to be able to ‘self adjust’.
Of course WE are all paying for this and basically with no say so as long as the right palms get greased all is well, cost overruns be damned!!!
In a corporate research department, I worked with an "engineer" who came in one day and complained that he had put a log in his fireplace -- and had used up an entire large box of matches -- trying to get it to burn.
Yep.
Suffice it to say, I never sought engineering advice from him... (And, we weren't making passenger planes.)
HR strikes again... :-{
Force of habit, I guess, have been doing it for years.
The same a English, for English languages or some of my ancestors.
Time to fly Airlines that uses Antonov air craft
Sell your Boeing stock now. This is a plain and obvious sign of management no longer making sound business based decisions. We just heard the toilet flush and that organization is headed down the tubes.
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