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The [Tuesday] Papers"United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz was surely pleased by a federal judge's decision to stop (at least for now) the travel ban affecting people from seven Muslim-majority countries," Shia Kapos reports for the Sun-Times. "In a letter to employees last week, Munoz reiterated the Chicago-based airline's commitment to diversity. "'We are a company representing every creed and conviction, background and belief. It is these differences that strengthen us and unite us as a company and a country,' he wrote." Perhaps. But: "Some African-American United Airlines pilots involved in a lengthy lawsuit over allegations of discrimination at the airline are asking Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice to look into their claims," the Tribune reported in September. "The pilots allege Chicago-based United passed them over for management promotions because of their race and retaliated against them for filing civil rights complaints." CBS News reported: The coalition is pointing to a 40-year old case as failing to provide meaningful change. In 1976, United entered a consent decree with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over diversity. As part of the agreement, United provided more than $1 million in back pay and agreed to hire minorities and women into upper-level jobs including pilot and management roles. According to a San Francisco union local, "The pilots claim that United has an 'utter lack of diversity at the management level' and has systemically kept black employees from entering the managerial ranks." On the other hand, "At United Airlines, all customer-facing employees, including its 25,000 flight attendants, undergo recurrent diversity training that includes lessons in cultural awareness," Bloomberg reports. And, of course, the pilots' allegations aren't necessarily true. I just hate to see a corporate CEO allowed to make moral claims without (appropriate) pushback. In this case, that would mean asking about (and researching) United's track record, and what it's done lately to strengthen diversity. Or you could just hand your recorder to a CEO while finishing your lunch. * As long as we're discussing United's morals . . . "In a settlement highlighting the need for public companies to implement - and adhere to - effective internal controls, United Airlines recently paid a $2.4 million civil penalty to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to follow its own compliance policies and procedures designed to prevent corrupt payments," three Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft lawyers wrote for Law 360 in January. "By allowing management to bypass its internal approval process and authorize a money-losing route from Newark, New Jersey, to Columbia, South Carolina, in exchange for benefits from a senior official with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, United failed to enact an adequate system of internal controls and, as a result, prepared inaccurate accounting books and records." - House Grouse Radogno must be doing something right - whether it's at the behest of the governor or not. Last June, I wrote: "At one time I thought Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno might have it in her to be the one to break the stalemate - and thus put herself on a path to higher office - but she hasn't even come close. Of course, if any other governor - Republican or Democrat - were in office, Radogno and her House counterpart Jim Durkin would have cut a deal by now. Their urgent loyalty to holding the budget hostage in order to get workers comp and tort 'reform' began only on the day the Rauner and his millions were sworn in." - The Police Union's Fake News
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- A Gift To Trump? TVs That Really Were Spying On You Trump Puts Food, Farm Companies On Edge How Can We Get More Kids To Report Concussions? Where Do America's Racist Ideas Come From? Russia's Golden Arches Tips For Growing Blueberries In Wisconsin - BeachBook Toby Keith Decried As Too "Political" For Naperville Ribfest. * Stalled Olive-Harvey Project On South Side A "Travesty." * Iran: Trump Shows America's True Face. - TweetWood
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- The Beachwood Tronc Line: Chilling. Posted on February 7, 2017 |
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