Faced with the self-inflicted, pandemic-related staffing shortages and pressure to add minorities, the airlines have changed the way they hire, train, and discipline workers—mostly to the benefit of less-qualified new hires representing the diversity rainbow, many airline veteran employees say.
One flight attendant, a Hispanic female, at a very well known national airline said: “They are compromising safety for the sake of race, gender identity, and sexual preference. They’re risking people’s lives because of quotas and agendas.”
While promoting diversity can sound like a great idea, the inclusionary policies have actually become exclusionary at the airlines. All of them. With various degrees of participation, employees say.
Disparate treatment has divided their ranks into two distinct camps: those with “desirable” or “accepted” personal, social, or political characteristics—female, LGTBQA+XYZ, ethnic minority, liberal and Democrat, and those without—male, white, conservative, Republican and Christian.
Minorities or people with leftist political views, varying gender identities, and alternative sexual orientations, appear to be given wide latitude. This “protected class” is allowed to bend or the break rules. New hires with the right pedigree, are given extra chances to pass required skills tests, the employees said.
She and others say the targeting of conservatives is common—and they point to the recently publicized case of fired flight attendant as a prime example. The protected class is so sure of their job security that they antagonize and ridicule perceived conservatives, in order to provoke a reaction they can exploit towards disciplinary action up to termination.
Last month, a federal jury in Texas awarded that flight attendant more than $5 million after finding that the airline wrongfully terminated her and that her union didn’t live up to its duty to represent her. The company fired her after she expressed her pro-life views to a union leader via social media and opposed the union’s pro-abortion activism, which often uses union dues to support Democrat candidates.
The question is why would the airlines marginalize what amounts to be the majority of their employees over minorities? The answer, ESG scores.
DEI data play a significant role in corporate ESG scores —ratings of a company’s “environmental, social, and governance” performance. It’s a complex—and controversial—way to assess which companies are considered “good corporate citizens.”
Most of the interviewed airline employees believe that the pursuit of ESG scores is driving corporate personnel practices, including ignoring well-qualified male applicants, while eagerly hiring less-experienced female, LGTBQA+XYZ and ethnic minority candidates.
A good ESG score can attract investors, government contracts, and favorable loan-interest rates—benefits that are especially important for the airline industry, in which lucrative U.S. Department of Defense contracts, are at stake and profit margins are razor-thin because of astronomical costs for equipment and personnel.
Economic, Social and Governance metrics, with the exception of the governance metrics, are political metrics that have nothing to do with corporate profitability. ESG thus destroys capitalism by turning corporations into left-wing activist non-profits.
How does this work in practice? ESG is imposed on all publicly-traded corporations through the large voting blocks controlled by large asset managers, the biggest of which are BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and state pension plans (such as CalPers).
BlackRock controls the largest block of shareholder votes in virtually every corporation in America. BlackRock is what is known as an asset manager. It manages mutual funds, including those commonly used in 401(k) and pension plans. The head honcho at BlackRock is Larry Fink, who by the way, is another W.E.F. Marxist, but one that understand the power of money.
So next time you fly on an airplane, take a good look at the pilots and flight attendants. They may not be the most qualified but rather, the ones who checked the most boxes.
Inspired by the writing of Franco Jones
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