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    [단독외신] Boeing CEO pledges a 20 percent increase in black employees
    [단독외신] Boeing CEO pledges a 20 percent increase in black employees Enlarge Image AFP via Getty Image Boeing is seeking to increase black US employees throughout the company by 20 percent and mandate benchmarks for hiring people of color, Chief Executive Dave Calhoun told employees in a memo on Friday reviewed by Reuters. US corporations have become more responsive to complaints related to racial equality following a summer of sweeping anti-racism protests over the slaying of black people by police. The changes at Boeing, a stalwart defense contractor with its corporate headquarters in Chicago and largest factories in Washington state and South Carolina, appeared to mark the first concrete steps by the planemaker to address the issue. “We understand we have work to do,” Calhoun said in the memo, which was released on the 57th anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech andincluded references to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on Sunday. Boeing declined to provide its current number of black employees or a timeline for the new target. The planemaker separately has had to lay off thousands of workers as it grapples with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the 17-month-old grounding of the 737 MAX after two fatal crashes. In the memo, Calhoun said the company would establish an internal Racial Justice think-tank to guide its policies. On June 23, a manager at Boeing’s Everett factory found “racist symbols” at his work station, according to an email from Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Stan Deal to employees seen by Reuters. The manager is black, a person familiar with the incident said. The company launched an internal investigation and referred the matter to police, Deal said, calling the incident “disheartening and a stark reminder of how far our society has to go.” Boeing was also donating some $10 million to support social justice nonprofits, such as the Equal Justice Initiative, following similar pledges from other companies such as Bank of America and Facebook. It has previously touted its strong commitment to improving diversity, though the number of women on its executive council has fallen from five to two since the beginning of 2019, according to Boeing’s annual reports and website.
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  • [단독외신] Top Amazon exec takes aim at Whole Foods cashiers ahead of retirement
    [단독외신] Top Amazon exec takes aim at Whole Foods cashiers ahead of retirement Jeff Wilke, head of Amazon's consumer operationsMark Ralston/Getty Images A powerful Amazon executive who had been considered a possible successor to Jeff Bezos is leaving the company — but not before setting the stage for Whole Foods to eliminate its human cashiers, The Post has learned. Jeff Wilke — a 20-year veteran at the Seattle-based e-commerce giant who oversees its consumer division, including everything from its Prime business to Whole Foods — will retire early next year, Amazon said in a securities filing on Friday. Wilke is stepping down by his own choice and has been in the works for some time, a source familiar with the situation told The Post, quashing speculation that Wilke may have lost a succession battle. He will be succeeded by Dave Clark, who currently serves as senior vice president for worldwide operations. In the meantime, however, the 52-year-old executive aims to complete two final projects in the coming months. The first is to oversee the rollout of Amazon Go convenience stores and their ambitious cashierless technology, which allows customers at Amazon Go stores to pay for items by simply walking out of the store rather than ringing them up at a register. The bigger task for Wilke, according to a source close to the company, will be to oversee the rollout of high-powered sensors that drive the cutting-edge tech — which currently are currently operating at a mere 26 Amazon Go locations in the US — to Whole Foods, which Amazon acquired for $13.7 billion in 2017. “Amazon Go proved out the tech, but they can’t figure out how to make those stores profitable,” the source told The Post, noting that low prices at the high-tech shops are squeezing their bottom line. “But Whole Foods prints cash, and with healthy margins, too.” The rollout of the technology to Whole Foods is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2021, just after Wilke’s retirement, sources said. Amazon earlier this year unveiled a new supermarket prototype that relies more on technology than human workers — a controversial, job-killing business model that CEO Jeff Bezos had dismissed as nutty three years ago. Wilke’s capstone project will see him begin to make Whole Foods stores operate more like the 10,400-square-foot “Amazon Go Grocery” store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The high-tech outlet uses cameras and sensors to detect which products customers pick off the shelves, allowing shoppers to pay for a bagful of groceries with a smartphone app that senses when they leave the store. In a memo titled “Hanging up the flannel,” CEO Jeff Bezos called Wilke “an incredible teacher to all of us.” “Since Jeff joined the company, I have been lucky enough to have him as my tutor,” Bezos said. “Jeff’s legacy and impact will live on long after he departs. He is simply one of those people without whom Amazon would be completely unrecognizable.” An Amazon spokewoman on Friday declined to comment further on Wilke’s plans. Shares of Amazon were off 0.3 percent early Friday at $3,286. The company’s stock is up more than 80 percent since March when the coronavirus pandemic began shutting down the United States and stuck-at-home consumers turned to Amazon for their shopping needs.
    • Animal Rights
    2020-08-23
  • 맥도날드 서울역점 직원 코로나19 확진…매장 임시폐쇄
    맥도날드 서울역점 직원 코로나19 확진…매장 임시폐쇄 맥도날드 서울역점 직원이 코로나19 확진 판정을 받아 매장이 임시 폐쇄됐다.맥도날드는 22일 보건당국으로부터 서울역점 직원 A씨가 코로나19 확진 판정을 받았다는 통보를 받고 즉시 매장을 폐쇄, 방역을 실시했다고 밝혔다.A씨는 서울역점 매장의 시설을 관리하는 크루(임시직)였던 것으로 알려졌다. 맥도날드와 보건당국은 A씨가 근무한 일자와 감염 경로, 동선을 토대로 밀접 접촉자를 파악 중이다.맥도날드는 이날 오후 1시부로 매장을 폐쇄하고 전 직원을 자가 격리 조치했다. 서울역점 소속 직원들은 향후 보건당국의 지시에 따라 코로나19 검사를 진행할 예정이다.맥도날드 관계자는 "본사 방역 지침에 따라 매일 의무적으로 직원의 체온을 측정하고 있다"며 "A씨 역시 확진 판정을 받기 전까지 체온이 36.6도로 정상범위였다"고 설명했다.이어 "보건당국에 성실하게 협조해 역학조사를 진행 중"이라며 "코로나19 확산 예방을 위한 철저한 위생·안전 관리에 만전을 기울일 것"이라고 말했다.
    • NEWS & ISSUE
    • Social
    2020-08-22
  • 가짜 신세계 ( 이마트) 상품권 유통 의심...경찰 수사 착수
    가짜 신세계 ( 이마트) 상품권 유통 의심...경찰 수사 착수 가짜 신세계 이마트 상품권이 유통된 것으로 의심된다는 신고가 접수돼 경찰이 수사에 나섰다.서울 성동경찰서는 최근 상품권 재판매점으로부터 위조된 신세계 이마트 상품권이 거래된 것 같다는 이마트 측의 신고를 받고 수사에 착수했다고 밝혔다. 이마트 측은 현재까지 일반 고객 피해는 없다고 밝혔다. 또 공식 판매처를 통해 구입하지 않은 상품권을 사용한 시도가 발견됐다며 상품권을 구매할 수 있는 공식 판매처 명단을 공지했다.경찰은 위조 상품권을 구매한 피해자를 찾는 등 추가 증거를 보강할 예정이다.
    • NEWS & ISSUE
    • Social
    2020-08-21
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