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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I know how it's done. You can't win with those people.
Shoulda picked our own danged cotton.
Really, why would they need to hire more if they've already hired all qualified applicants?
Go down to the Seattle day labor center, hire all the Black faces there, and put them in charge of engineering the MAX improvements.
Let’s face it - they can’t do any worse than the last guys did.
No qualifications, other than skin color.
Wouldn’t hiring people based on skin color violate Federal law?
NASA asked Boeing to fix 80 issues with the Starliner.
Eighty issues.
The 737 Max has been grounded for a year and a half.
That’s 18 months.
Solution:
Hire people based on their skin tone instead of their competence.
Boeing is dead.
Here comes a ton of H1-B black immigrants.
They have NO intention of hiring black AMERCICANS.
Hiring practices with the qualifier of skin color for choosing equally qualified candidates is racism.
I will never fly again. Haven’t for years. It’s painful and expensive. Boeing has damaged the airline industry by outsourcing manufacturing and programming to low cost vendors and allowing the Chinese to do final assembly of their product. Now they are going to forego competence for skin color? LMAO. Love my F150. It may take longer to get there, but there is more room and I know the pilot.
What he said was a 20 percent increase in black workers. So if the have 10 black workers now, they have to hire 2 more to make that quota. No problem.
I quit flying 20 years ago when they instituted the goon squads at the airports. Can drive anywhere I need to go.
Just wonder that if you “identify as black” could you force them to hire you according to the progressive laws of the state?
Nor do all of the ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ non-jobs that infest corporate hierarchies. This country has done nothing but give and give to this group or that for 60 years. Incredible that a major company like Boeing would do this.
For Boeing to hire more bitter women of color in HR, they’ll have to raid the university workplace and other large corporate “human resource” environs to poach these most valuable “assets”.
Not true — that what the Left wants.
Haven’t been aboard an aircraft since 1980, now I know I will never fly again.
Won’t get on board any AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AIRCRAFT!!!!
Boeing is going to have to let people go because the travel industry is in shambles due to COVID-19 and they have screwed up the 737 MAX due to incompetence. Are they now going to have to let even more people go so they can meet their quota?
Maybe Boeing IS planning on failure or culling out higher paid employees to save cash?
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