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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“mandate benchmarks for hiring people of color”
Both un-constitutional and illegal on its face.
Replace “color” with “white”, see how soon DoJ attorneys show up at your door.
Boeing should be looking for the best qualified no matter the race.
Fascinating virtue signaling by a CEO. As a government contractor Boeing is covered by Executive Order 11246 and therefore has had an affirmative action program (presumably with regular compliance reviews) for decades. I guess this shows all that money and effort were to no avail. Maybe this is yet another government regulation that Mr. Trump could eliminate the EO and help give the economy a further boost ...
Boeing liked hiring trash from the demographic fringes during the ‘70s.
So it will “token” employees.
Will they have token customers cuz in the future I can see (more) planes falling outta of the sky for some ‘unknown’ reason.
They will blame everything except themselves.
“Gravity(science) is racist!!)”
Might as well paint BLM on the planes as well.
With the COVID induced slowdown in orders, Boeing will likely be not hiring, laying off, and encouraging early retirements. I guess that will accelerate now that Boeing wants to contribute more to the Grand Social Experiment.
20%? they only make up ~13% of the population...
Maybe they can hire even more bitter black women into HR. That’s where most of them go.
LOL!! So true . . .
Calhoun: "Certainly. The 20% is our initial target. We intend to increase the target annually."
Interviewer: "So will you commit to a 100% BLM African-american workforce?".
Calhoun: "Certainly. Our commitment is to make safer aircraft while promoting diversity. Of course it will only get to 99.9% because I am not black and I want to keep my job."
Alas, they are losing their commercial side of the business which leaves their military side to carry the load. The military is GOVERNMENT run....This is the downfall of another U.S. company...being forced to play the “government” game.
There aren't many here.
However, every Black employee they hired, both management and blue collar, IMHO were and are the best of the best, excellent workers, and most of them conservative republicans.
I don't know if it was the screening process or that good people just happened to apply.
Prior to working at GE I had encountered the worst of affirmative action hires in other places, so I know what that is.
Of course they dint.
Pure Socialist Virtue Signalers.
If you’re white and apply for a job a Boeing, but don’t get hired....reverse discrimination.
That’s it. I’m through buying my jets from Boeing.
Good thing they moved their HQ to ChIraq.
Why are you bowing to the blm nonsense and putting black in caps??
Incoming discrimination lawsuits. Impact in 3...2...1
With all their current problems with the 737 MAX, the military rejecting planes because trash and tools are being found sealed up in compartments slated for delivery, and mass layoffs, starting something like this without a black technical personnel supply line will result in a new phrase of If It Is Boeing, I ain’t Going.
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