Westinghouse - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Westinghouse is Medium Risk.

Westinghouse 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	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

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

Medium

Rationale:

Westinghouse integrates ESG into its business practices. From its Supplier Code of Conduct: “Westinghouse may request performance metric data to ensure compliance (e.g., greenhouse gas data)” (1). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Westinghouse will not match employee donations to “Religious-affiliated organizations” (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Westinghouse offers its employees to take unconscious bias and DEI training (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment. From its 2023 Sustainability Report: “We make DEI a priority, in alignment with applicable laws, by working to educate and recruit more underrepresented minority professionals and women into the nuclear industry while strengthening the sense of belonging with all of our employees” (2). The company operates a supplier diversity program: “We currently have supplier diversity policies for our U.S., Canada and U.K. operations” (3). Westinghouse protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Westinghouse is committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (1). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its Sustainability Report 2023: “Westinghouse is committed to being a DEI organization. We make DEI a priority, in alignment with applicable laws, by working to educate and recruit more underrepresented minority professionals and women into the nuclear industry while strengthening the sense of belonging with all of our employees” (2). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its Sustainability Report 2023: “Our Governance Working Group — part of our ESG governance model — guides our focus on continuously evolving our practices” (3).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Westinghouse has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

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

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Westinghouse has not used its PAC donations (1)(2). In 2021, the company lobbied for Clean Energy for America Act (3).