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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Someone in the Trump administration should remind employers that racial discrimination in hiring is illegal.
Just fire some white people and make it up with black people regardless of qualifications. The planes will magically fly off in a cloud of exuberance and joy.
nope nada they as a race want me dead no f ing way if it Boeing i aint going
No thanks, I’ll walk.
Clearly racist. Hiring people based on their race.
No Whity’s need to apply.
That's racist.
If I were CEO I’d be more concerned that all my planes now have massive safety issues and sales are plummeting before worrying about diversity hires because I’m not even sure there’s 20% more black engineers out there.
In that case, I pledge a 100% increase in my travel on Airbus aircraft. :)
Can they find the number of black engineers they need to make up the number they’re thinking of?
Saying what others are probably thinking. No, I am not a racist.
Where are all these qualified folks gonna come for all of these millions of jobs coming their way?
Because at least from what I’ve seen in Brooklyn, unless swigging a 40 and smoking tremendous amounts of pot is the main requirement, they are gonna have trouble filling these positions.
It’s a lie that blacks can’t get jobs now. they are getting many.
So what’s left is those who don’t want to work.
That should help a company out a lot, hiring them.
Why don’t they instead just fire 30% of the white employees to teach them crackers a lesson?
Only professional affirmative-action bureaucrats and professional affirmative-action educrats should be allowed to decide who is hired and who is fired!
Time for a reverse racism lawsuit. Best/ most qualified people should always get these jobs, as long as they are US Citizens.
Define “employee”.
Saying what others are probably thinking. No, I am not a racist.
Here - I'll say it:
Boeing will handwave some black "engineers" and expect their colleagues to pick up their slack.
Fire up those diversty-training classrooms.
They will just add people to HR or create entire new departments for diversity or cultural sensitivity or whatever squidgy, useless thing they can dream up.
Welcome aboard ,you were hired just because you’re Black
All those laws about discrimination mean nothing.
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