Problem-Riddled Boeing Axes Entire Diversity Division
Top airline manufacturer Boeing dissolved its global diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) division amid significant financial losses, union strikes and scrutiny over safety and production issues, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
The reorganization, which reassigned its DEI staff to Boeing’s employee experience division, reflects CEO Kelly Ortberg’s focus on consolidating operations as the company grapples with a number of problems, according to Bloomberg.
Sara Liang Bowen, who previously helmed Boeing’s DEI department, announced her departure on Thursday, Bloomberg reported. In a LinkedIn post, Bowen expressed pride in her team’s work, acknowledging both its challenges and accomplishments.
“The team achieved so much — sometimes imperfectly, never easily — and dreamed of doing much more still,” Bowen wrote in a farewell post on LinkedIn.
Critics argue such policies encourage discrimination by favoring certain demographics, and this scrutiny is part of a larger trend, with activists targeting corporations and calling for a shift away from DEI priorities, the outlet stated.
Ortberg’s vision for Boeing includes a sweeping reduction of the executive layer and an overall 10% cut in workforce as he seeks to reorient the company’s mission. Boeing and its shareholders are facing a $1.05 billion loss, and workers and suppliers are set to lose $351 million from the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union strike that began Sept. 13.
Under previous CEO Dave Calhoun, Boeing pledged to increase black representation to 20% by 2025, with the company reporting a 7.5% increase in black employment by 2023, Bloomberg reported.
“Boeing remains committed to recruiting and retaining top talent and creating an inclusive work environment where every teammate around the world can perform at their best while supporting the company’s mission,” the plane maker said in a statement, Bloomberg reported.
The company faced significant scrutiny earlier this year for an incident involving an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 flight where a door plug was torn off mid-air, prompting a federal investigation. A Senate report published in September found that Boeing prioritized rapid production over quality and failed to offer sufficient training, based on a 2024 special audit by the FAA and an investigation conducted by a U.S. Senate subcommittee.
A NASA report released in August found that Boeing employed workers lacking sufficient qualifications for constructing their space rockets, leading to quality control problems. NASA’s audit suggested a shortage of skilled aerospace professionals on the Space Launch System project contributed significantly to delays and increased costs.
Before these incidents, the FAA’s report in February revealed potential safety issues in the company’s operations after two tragic crashes in 2018 and 2019, which resulted in 346 deaths, leading the company to plead guilty to criminal fraud in July. Former Boeing senior manager and whistleblower Ed Pierson previously criticized executives for ignoring his warnings about quality control risks.
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Sadly, I don’t think most Americans understand how pervasive and destructive the Democrats DEI has become. In 2021, Biden passed an executive order practically codifying illegal anti-white racism by demanding DEI hiring in every government office and for every government position in the country. Policies that call for hiring and promoting whites last; regardless of qualifications and merit. And it all flows to the private sector where these policies have transformed almost every college and big business in America. Now every college and big business has a DEI officer; at the level of Dean or VP. For example, the University that Thomas Jefferson founded (the University of Virginia) now has a DEI Associate Dean in every single one of its colleges; with most making 400 to 500 thousand a year, partially or fully funded by taxpayer dollars. DEI courses that are all anti-white marxist indoctrination; courses like “unpacking Oppression” or “understanding Diversity and Social Justice ” or a dozen others. Courses that are inculcating and indoctrinating your children. And not just UVA, but google any major university for a list of their “diversity” courses and you will find the same. DEI is a Democrat induced cancer that has infected every college campus and every government agency and most large private companies in America.
DEI is blatantly illegal because it violates every one of our civil rights laws that say there can be no discrimination based on “race, creed, or sex or national origin”. It’s destroying the foundational concept of America as the greatest “Meritocracy” in the world. It’s making the government more and more incompetent and, as pointed out in this article, it is destroying once great private companies. The states need to sue the Federal government to bring DEI to the Supreme Court so that this real “systemic racism” can be struck down and forever banned.