United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby came under fire after a video was released of an interview he conducted touting his company’s diversity initiatives, which limited white workers while emphasizing more women and minorities in its workforce.
Kirthrough responded to his “diversity goals” at the company by saying, “We are committed to having 50% of the categories be women or other people of color. “
“Today, only 19% of our pilots are women or other people of color,” Kirby said, adding that this is a very high number for the airline industry.
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“White males don’t just dominate in the cockpits but also in the C-suite at United Airlines,” Axios interviewer Dan Primack said to Kirby in the resurfaced June 2021 interview.
Kirby said he’s “proud” of diversity efforts at his company and is “focused on” expanding diversity numbers across the company.
He explained that he purposely had women and minorities involved in the interviewing process at the company.
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Kirthrough has also been criticized and has dealt with demanding legal situations alleging draconian discrimination and a purge of devoted workers who were exempt from the COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit brief states that the company’s internal communications showed contempt for those workers by proposing to demand “Housed workers walk around with special stickers on their badges indicating vaccination status. “
United’s lawyers disagreed with Kirthrough’s proposal to target unvaccinated workers. An internal communication said, “In fact, even some HR workers were shocked through Mr. Kirthrough, claiming that putting stickers on the badges of unvaccinated workers is “like the scarlet letter. “. Oh my God. ” Who are we???”
Diversity projects in friendly skies have to do with other agencies.
Chief Technology Officer Elon Musk on Monday called for the Federal Aviation Administration’s efforts to recruit workers with “severe” intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other intellectual and physical situations to expand diversity efforts within the agency.
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“I just had a verbal exchange with other wise people who didn’t know this was happening,” Musk said.
Alaska Airlines was widely criticized for their company’s diversity focus after 171 passengers and six flight crew members miraculously survived a flight when a door plug broke off at 16,000 feet.