Boeing Employee's Credit Union

Rating Overview

Boeing Employee’s Credit Union is Medium Risk.

Boeing Employee’s Credit Union is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Lower Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	Medium Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	Medium Risk
Funding	High Risk
Political Actions	Lower Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Boeing Employee’s Credit Union has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Boeing Employee’s Credit Union likely uses Benevity as its charitable giving platform. Benevity vets charities according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate List, which includes mainstream libertarian, conservative, family, and religious advocacy organizations (1)(2)(3).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Boeing Employee’s Credit Union offers DEI training to its employees (1). Boeing Credit Union protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Boeing Employee’s Credit Union supports DEI within its business practices, employing a DEI Committee and Officers (1). Boeing supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a DEI Council (2). Boeing Credit Union supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2021 Annual Report: “We aim to embed equity and inclusion into every aspect of the way we operate by building structures that look to not only change internal policies and practices, but externally to create more access and inclusion for our members and community” (3). Boeing Credit Union held a virtual LGBTQ Pride celebration that included drag performances (4). Boeing Credit Union wrote a blog encouraging people to support LGBTQ Pride year-round by giving money specifically to LGBTQ-owned businesses (5). Otherwise, Boeing Credit Union has not supported ideological causes or policies (6).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Boeing Employee’s Credit Union donated $5 million “to support nonprofit partnerships that improve the Black community” some of which went to the National Urban League (1)(2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Boeing Credit Union does not operate a PAC at this time and has not used its lobbying for ideological purposes (1)(2)(3).