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Bloomberg Offers to Release Three Women from Non-Disclosure Agreements: BREAKING
Under intense pressure from Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic rivals, Michael Bloomberg announced Friday that he is willing to release women who’ve accused him of harassment from non-disclosure agreements.
Bloomberg LP has identified 3 NDAs signed over the past 30+ years with women to address complaints about comments they said I had made.
If any of them want to be released from their NDAs, they should contact the company and they’ll be given a release. t.co/bO9JpvSx1T
— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) February 21, 2020
“I’ve had the company go back over its record and they’ve identified 3 NDAs that we signed over the past 30-plus years with women to address complaints about comments they said I had made,” Bloomberg wrote in a statement. “If any of them want to be released from their NDA so that they can talk about those allegations, they should contact the company and they’ll be given a release. I’ve done a lot of reflecting on this issue over the past few days and I’ve decided that for as long as I’m running the company, we won’t offer confidentiality agreements to resolve claims of sexual harassment or misconduct going forward.
“I recognize that NDAs, particularly when they are used in the context of sexual harassment and sexual assault, promote a culture of silence in the workplace and contribute to a culture of women not feeling safe or supported. It is imperative that when problems occur, workplaces not only address the specific incidents, but the culture and practices that led to those incidents. And then leaders must act.”
“I used to teach contract law. And I thought I would make this easy.”
Elizabeth Warren opened her #cnntownhall by reading aloud a document to release people from Michael Bloomberg’s nondisclosure agreements t.co/j8nidJ0nTL pic.twitter.com/eHMBjI4qyM
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 21, 2020
During Wednesday’s Democratic debate and at a CNN Town Hall on Thursday, Warren slammed Bloomberg over the non-disclosure agreements. At the town hall, she even presented a proposed contract that Bloomberg could sign to allow the women to tell their stories.
“I’d like to talk about who we’re running against: a billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’ And no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg,” Warren said during the debate. “Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.”
“This not just a question of the mayor’s character. This is also a question about electability,” Warren said. “We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who-knows-how-many nondisclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against. That’s not what we do as Democrats.”
Reactions from Twitter below.
Note that he is limiting this number and this release to NDAs specifically about “comments they said I had made.” This is not at all addressing his company’s use of NDAs more broadly relating to sexual harassment or gender discrimination or giving any idea of how many there are. t.co/K3gTrt947d
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 21, 2020
Bloomberg finds only 3 NDAs about Bloomberg from an internal review conducted by… Bloomberg LP t.co/le95tsAFc1
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) February 21, 2020
Over to you, @RealDonaldTrump! Will you and your Campaign do the same and release women like me who are forbidden from speaking and sued for millions? t.co/oZcdrIcHVo
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) February 21, 2020
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Bloomberg Offers to Release Three Women from Non-Disclosure Agreements
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