Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Dead, the Second in 2 Months: ‘He Possessed Tremendous Courage,’ Lawyers Say
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Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Dead, the Second in 2 Months: ‘He Possessed Tremendous Courage,’ Lawyers Say
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This could be just a random occurrence : there are a lot of Boeing whistleblowers that have come forward, of course, and many of them are older.
“This could be just a random occurrence…”
“Boeing whistleblower says he was told ‘frankly, to shut up’ after 3 years of raising aircraft quality concerns: ‘This is the hell that I was subjected to’”
“Instead of addressing his concerns, he said, Boeing brass shut him down, part of a broader trend within the company of brushing off safety concerns in the name of productivity and the bottom line.”
Powerful and influential for-profit companies, 100% support their whistleblower employees right? Who would want to be actively complicit with any other treatment of a whistleblower?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-whistleblower-says-told-frankly-214347933.html
“Who would want to be actively complicit with any other treatment of a whistleblower?”
Most employees would obviously not want to be identified as “actively complicit”. And, if too many employees became aware of unlawful or retaliatory treatment, the odds of one of them squealing or making a revealing mistake will increase.
A more likely path of being treated like “hell”, is to keep the intent and goal of such treatment limited to a few key individuals, and then systematically leverage other employees not acutely “in the know”, with workplace tasks that indirectly support the abusive treatment, until the desired end goal is achieved. Ugly, but it does occur and it can lead to high levels of stress, hardship, or worse for the subject of such abuse, whatever age that person is. We can do better.
I'm not totally convinced that Airbus planes are currently any safer to fly on, and I feel safe on either in general -- it could be that Boeing had a series of problems, but there were other times in the past where the same was true of Airbus. There are other factors besides the aircraft in a lot of incidents, maintenance, crew training and skill, flying conditions, air traffic control and airport conditions, and the controls and design philosophy is a bit different.
In the United States in particular there have been not that many fatalities on either Boeing or Airbus flights in the last 20 years -- perhaps because a lot of these other factors are dealt with well thanks to FAA and other agency regulations and safety work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States
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