Boeing: Profits 1st, Safety 2nd? (Part 3)

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Message 2140406 - Posted: 8 Sep 2024, 22:03:49 UTC - in response to Message 2140400.  

To be fair it sounds like your place of employment, or SOP corporatized management.

The big difference here in my example outpost, is that the only thing that gets put at risk are jobs/livelihood and production output.

... No actual LIVES, or the well being of others, are put at risk in the 'game' of being gambled for profit...

As long as it isn't the lives of the Board Room, Ford Pinto. Or do you not think that FORD was the epitome of corporate culture when they produced them?
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Message 2141196 - Posted: 25 Sep 2024, 0:28:49 UTC

FAA chief says Boeing safety culture reforms may take years
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration told a U.S. House subcommittee on Tuesday that safety culture improvements at Boeing(BA.N), opens new tab may take three to five years to complete.

"It is not a six-month program - it is a three-year to five-year program," FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said at a two-hour hearing, adding he has spoken to Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and the company's board of directors about the need for safety culture reforms.

He said Boeing has made significant improvement in the short term. "On culture it is a long-term project .... There is progress but they are not where they need to be."
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Message 2141237 - Posted: 25 Sep 2024, 20:54:20 UTC

1 way or the other Boeing is losing more of its profits.

Boeing strikers not interested in 30% pay rise.

The union representing thousands of striking Boeing workers says a survey of its members shows they are "not interested" in the aviation giant's latest pay offer.

"Many comments expressed that the offer was inadequate," the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) said in a post on X.

It comes after Boeing made a new offer earlier this week to striking workers, which proposed a 30% pay rise over four years.

BBC News has requested a statement from Boeing in response to the IAM announcement.

"The survey results from yesterday were overwhelmingly clear, almost as loud as the first offer: members are not interested in the company's latest offer that was sent through the media," the IAM post said.

On Monday, Boeing made what it called its "best and final" pay offer, which included the reinstatement of a performance bonus, improved retirement benefits and a one-off $6,000 (£4,470) bonus for signing a new pay deal.

The company said the offer was dependent on it being ratified by union members by midnight pacific time on Friday 27 September (7:00 GMT on Saturday 28 September).

However, IAM said Boeing had sent the new offer directly to union members and the media without telling the union's representatives.

It also said the company's deadline did not give it enough time to organise a vote by its members........
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Message 2141265 - Posted: 26 Sep 2024, 9:21:57 UTC
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Boeing staff report pressure to lower standards
[...] Democratic lawmakers released the results of a damaging internal staff survey that Boeing conducted in May, which found more than half of Boeing workers felt that "schedule pressures" had caused their team to lower its standards.

Less than two-thirds felt they had the training or tools and materials to do their job properly. [...]

[Sen. Blumenthal] said he was sceptical that the current plan for improvement adopted by the FAA and the company would make a difference, saying they looked like the company was "recycling" safety commitments it had made years earlier.

"We need tough oversight," Senator Josh Hawley said. "I want to make sure your agency is holding their feet to the fire."

[Blumenthal] criticised the 11 inspectors the FAA has sent to Boeing's factory in Renton, Washington as "inadequate" and raised concerns that FAA was giving Boeing too much heads-up about regulator audits.

Mr Blumenthal said he thought there would be more effective ways to pressure the company to change, such as capping executive pay.
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Message 2141335 - Posted: 27 Sep 2024, 21:10:41 UTC

NTSB issues urgent safety recommendations on Boeing 737 rudder after Newark incident

NTSB recommends Boeing notify crews about potential rudder control system jam
FAA to review corrective actions based on NTSB recommendations
Collins Aerospace identified production issue affecting over 353 actuators
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