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It doesn't matter the colour of employees' skin. It matters how many there are, and how the company insists they act. A company that cuts its own staff, reduces
by amiga386 3y ago
It doesn't matter the colour of employees' skin. It matters how many there are, and how the company insists they act. A company that cuts its own staff, reduces the bargaining power of unions, lets its supplier fuck it even harder, and cares about volume over quality... is going to be worse.
https://www.levernews.com/profits-and-payouts-over-passenger_safety/ https://www.levernews.com/profits-and-payouts-over-passenger...
> "Cost-cutting was the single major reason behind selling commercial aircraft-parts operations [to] the new entity named Spirit Aerosystems [which] introduced its own cost-cutting strategy, even harsher than Boeing's"
> Spirit executives explained that they "hired 1,300 fewer people than the predecessor had employed" and implemented less-favorable union contracts which "provided for wage reductions of 10%"
> Boeing took advantage of Spirit's weaker union and more cutthroat business tactics by further squeezing their supplier to do faster, cheaper work.
> In a federal securities lawsuit [...] some of Spirit’s former employees alleged [...] many serious production issues including "out-of-calibration torque wrenches" that mechanics were using, and "defects such as the routine presence of foreign object debris (“FOD”) in Spirit products, missing fasteners, peeling paint, and poor skin quality."
> The complaint concluded that "such constant quality failures resulted in part from Spirit's culture which prioritized production numbers and short-term financial outcomes over product quality."