Boeing’s #1 problem is not that they lack a culture of accountability.

It’s that they *hate unions* and *hate criticism.* So many of Boeing's major actions in the last 20, even 30 years have had to do with their attempts to break unions and escape political pressure in Washington State. The payoff is pressing workers without enough training, denigrating and overruling the work of union employees, and outsourcing work to avoid increasing union employment. This has cost them $10s of billions.

‘This Has Been Going on for Years.’ Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess. — The Wall Street Journal

Outsourcing worried engineers and sparked battles over quality before a door plug blew out on an Alaska Airlines plane midflight

From the No-Shit Sherlock department: ‘In 2011, former Boeing executive Jim Albaugh said that the approach had backfired. “In hindsight, we spent a lot more money in trying to recover than we ever would have spent if we tried to keep many of the key technologies closer to Boeing,” he said in an address at Seattle University. “The pendulum swung too far.”’
The 1997 merger that paved the way for the Boeing 737 Max crisis

Only now, with the plane indefinitely grounded, are we beginning to see the scale of its effects.

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@the_other_jon @glennf This. It's Boeing's poisoned acquisition of McDonnel Douglas that ruined it.
@redrummy @the_other_jon @glennf I know at least a dozen Boeing employees and they all agree.