The Boeing Company
Mr. W. James McNerney, Jr., CEO
100 N. Riverside MC 5003-6010
Chicago, IL 60606-1596
June 2, 2009

Subj: Ethics Violations

Dear Mr. McNerney:

I am a United States Citizen who hired on with Boeing International Support Systems, (BISS) in January of 2009 for the position of Flight / Simulator Instructor in support of the Lockheed C-130 program in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. As the President of the Boeing Company, you need to be made aware that Boeing International Support Systems management is engaged in the following practices that can only be described as unprofessional, unethical and possibly in violation of US and International law for the prevention of one’s liberty and freedom to move or travel. (Human Trafficking) Although, I provided this information to your ethics committee at ethicsline.ethics@boeing.com and followed that e-mail up with a phone call in early April of this year, your ethics committee never responded.

The following is a list of unethical business practices that I have personally observed. These practices can be confirmed by at least ten (10) other past or present Boeing employees. (Please find attached a list of employees who have witnessed this wrongdoing)

• detaining employees who wished to terminate employment
• failing to provide Iqamas, (in some cases over a year)
• allowing employee’s entry visas to expire without renewal
• not providing exit visas when requested
• not paying salaries on time
• not paying reimbursable expenses
• not paying sign on bonuses
• misrepresenting living conditions during the interview process
• confiscating passports from US Citizens and Third World Nationals upon arrival in country
• failing to return United States Passports when requested
• failing to provide clean or sanitary living or working conditions
• threatening employees with retaliation for trying to address these problems

In my particular case and on March 9, 2009 and after I tried to address some of these issues via the chain of command with no success, I submitted a fifteen (15) day advanced notice of resignation. I requested that the company return my US Passport and provide me an “Exit Visa” so that I could terminate employment with Boeing. The company did not return my passport and in fact prevented me from leaving, effectively holding me against my will on their compound for five days. It was during this time that I suffered a injury to my leg. The injury was serious enough that it required immediate attention and ultimately surgery. Once management was aware of the injury, and after a lengthy delay, (three weeks) doctors confirmed a torn Achilles tendon in my left leg. I asked them, that I be allowed to have the required surgery in the United States. I did so because I felt I would have a better selection of doctors, diagnostic skills and more state of the art surgical procedures back in the United States. The company denied my request to have this surgery performed in the United States, in fact claiming that the company’s medical insurance policy was not valid in the United States. (all new hires were issued medical cards indicating medical insurance coverage was valid in the US)

Although the company was well aware of my injury, no one in management made any accommodations for me prior to or following my surgery or to check on my wellbeing. If it had not been for fellow employees and Third World Nationals, (Ethiopians & Pakistanis ) who showed a genuine concerned for me who knows what would have happened to me during the five weeks that I was laid up on the third story apartment (no elevator) at the Mohammedya compound. Further, my contract, referencing “5.13, Sick Leave” states that a Boeing employee is entitled to full pay up to thirty (30) days and subsequent to the thirty (30) days, the employee shall be entitled to further sick leave for up to sixty (60) days at three quartes (3/4) pay in any one anniversary year period. The company has not paid me and this constitutes breach of contract.

I have to say that I have never encountered such irresponsibility, incompetence, and shear disregard for the safety and wellbeing of my fellow human beings, as I have with this company who claims to be a subsidiary of Boeing.

Those employees listed below have been shorted pay, denied expense reimbursement, denied promised bonus money or as in my case completely denied pay altogether. Again, I believe that Boeing International Support Systems/Alsalam Aircraft Company is in breach of our employment contracts for reasons that I have mention in this letter. As such, I would hope that you will see to it that the list of employees enclosed herein who came to work for the Boeing Company in good faith are paid the balance of their contracts for what has amounted to breach of contract. I am sorry to have to bring this matter to your attention, but it requires action by of those at the highest level. I look forward to hearing from you within ten (10) days from the date of this letter.

Sincerely,

Robin P. Petersen
Boeing Employee #B02389

Enclosures: Photo of Injury
List of Boeing Employees
Cc: The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Secretary of State
Via United States Consulate Officer Cindy Elkhatib, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Name E-mail
Terry Vipperman Terryv@windowlive.com
Robert Brown Rjbrown76@msn.com
Oscar Ortega Oortega12003@yahoo.com
Johnny Carroll Havoc77@aol.com
Tom Naugle naugenter@hotmail.com
Skip Bunner Skip_bunner@yahoo.com
Darrell Edwards Dledwards1@yahoo.com
Victor Cook Victorlcook25@hotmail.com
Joe Bianchino Joebianchino@verizon.net
Gary McGlinchy gmcglinchy@yahoo.com
Willie Hunter Hunterwille@yahoo.com

I always inssit that any one reaching any country in the world as a worker he/she report to his/her Embassy Consyulate for their protection . Same time they should provide informations
to their family where thay are situated and contacts .

The problem of our Countries they are afraid and cannot face the fact to help their Country People . Special poor Countries . So what they have to and my suggestion is to employee an
Arabic speaking employee to help them and that should be from their own Countries not from their or other Nationality cause they will be lying .and sincere and feel the pain as they are not
from the Country of that person .

I fail to understand your reasoning for doing this. Have you ever imagined if the same is to be done to you or your family members? have you ever in other words put yourself in these peoples’ position.

There must be something very wrong with these Saudi people, they must be put into some medical check ups sort of a thing before they get these maids and drivers or the same mechanism that one undergoes before adopting a baby.
must be in line for them.

Are you people qualified enough protect the migrant rights? why its only breaking human rights in Arab country ,,, why can,nt you just improve your rules to protect poor migrant workers,,, they spend lot of money to come abroad in order to bring good future,,but when they come like in gulf country most of them facing lots of problem