马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦周五再次呼吁前纽约市市长迈克·布隆伯格解除其雇员具有法律约束力的保密协议。
在沃伦重申之前，彭博的竞选团队宣布将释放三名在彭博公司任职的女性，沃伦本人也是这一举动的灵感来源。
在星期三民主辩论在拉斯维加斯，沃伦抨击了彭博使用NDAs的做法，据称这种做法被用来阻止公司性骚扰的受害者在公共场合发表言论。
沃伦说:“他已经让几十名女性签署了工作场所性骚扰和性别歧视的保密协议。那么，市长先生，你愿意让所有这些女性从保密协议中解脱出来，让我们听听她们的观点吗？”
“我们很少有保密协议，”布隆伯格说。“除了可能不喜欢开玩笑，他们没有人指责我做了什么。”
沃伦是一名前合同法教师，他为那些与彭博签署了NDAs的人起草了一份释放表把它带到了美国有线电视新闻网的市政厅周四晚上开会。
“布隆伯格市长所要做的就是下载它，”沃伦说。“我会发短信的。在上面签名，那么女人或男人就可以自由地说话和讲述他们自己的故事。”
沃伦周五表示，彭博没有采取足够的措施来消除这种担忧，他告诉记者，彭博“在这个问题上必须完全透明”
“就像我昨天说的，”沃伦在推特上写道，“迈克·布隆伯格和他的公司应该发布一揽子豁免，这样任何想站出来的人都可以站出来，不管有没有布隆伯格的事先许可。
新闻周刊联系沃伦和布隆伯格的竞选团队征求意见，但没有得到及时的回应。
马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦周五呼吁前纽约市长迈克尔·布隆伯格向任何与他签署保密协议的个人提供全面豁免。
周五，彭博发布了一份声明，称他的公司将在未来避免使用NDAs，并将与三名女性合作解除协议。
“如果这三个女人中的任何一个[想要从他们的NDA被释放，以便他们可以谈论这些指控，他们应该联系公司，他们将被释放，”彭博写道。“过去几天，我对这个问题进行了大量思考，我决定，只要我还在管理公司，我们就不会提供保密协议来解决性骚扰或不当行为的指控。”
前副总统乔·拜登的竞选团队同意沃伦的观点，即彭博的姿态不够广泛。
拜登的竞选经理凯特·贝丁菲尔德在周五的声明中写道:“今天的发布基本上没有告诉公众任何事情。”。“我们不知道有多少妇女签署了这些国家发展协定，这代表了多大比例的国家发展协定，也不知道有哪些类别的已签署国家发展协定被排除在外。布隆伯格市长早就该放弃把戏，向他要求投票给他的每一个人坦白他记录中非常重要的一部分了。”
彭博高级顾问蒂姆·奥布赖恩告诉美国有线电视新闻网的沃尔夫·布利泽情况室周五，沃伦在辩论中对彭博在NDA的情况进行了点名，这有助于促使他决定与三名未透露姓名的女性展开讨论。
“当然，沃伦参议员在这个决定中发挥了作用，”奥布赖恩说，“我非常钦佩沃伦参议员。她是一个令人难以置信的公务员。”
“不幸的是，我认为这场辩论变成了一场混战，”奥布赖恩继续说道。“迈克背上有一个大目标。我认为，[·沃伦(·沃伦)选择了她的立场，即利用一些虚假信息或不清楚的信息，试图假装迈克·布隆伯格不支持女性，也没有花一生时间帮助增强她们的权能。”
“我们很高兴通过更加清晰地阐明那些有争议的国家标准来解决这个问题，但我要再次向你指出，这只是一小部分有争议的国家标准，”奥布赖恩补充道。
AFTER BLOOMBERG OFFERS TO RELEASE 3 WOMEN FROM NDAS, WARREN CALLS FOR BLANKET WAIVER
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren renewed her call for former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg to release his employees from their legally binding nondisclosure agreements on Friday.
Warren's reiteration comes after Bloomberg's campaign announced it would offer to release three women from their NDAs with Bloomberg's company, and that Warren herself had inspired that move.
At Wednesday's Democratic debate in Las Vegas, Warren attacked Bloomberg's usage of NDAs, which were allegedly used to keep victims of sexual harassment in his company from speaking out in public.
"He has got some number of women, dozens, who knows," Warren said, "to sign nondisclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace. So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story?"
"We have very few nondisclosure agreements," Bloomberg said. "None of them have accused me of doing anything, other than maybe they didn't like a joke."
Warren, a former teacher of contract law, crafted a release form for those who had signed NDAs with Bloomberg and brought it to a CNN Town Hall meeting Thursday night.
"All that Mayor Bloomberg has to do is download it," Warren said. "I'll text it. Sign it and then the women or men will be free to speak and tell their own stories."
Warren said Friday that Bloomberg wasn't doing enough to quell the concern, telling reporters that Bloomberg is "going to have to be fully transparent on this issue."
"Like I said yesterday," Warren tweeted, "Mike Bloomberg and his company should issue a blanket waiver so anyone who wants to come forward can come forward, with or without Bloomberg's prior permission.
Newsweek reached out to Warren and Bloomberg's campaigns for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren called Friday for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to offer a blanket waiver to any individual who had signed a nondisclosure agreement with him.
Friday, Bloomberg released a statement saying his company would eschew the usage of NDAs in the future and would work with three women on terms of their release from the agreements.
"If any of [the three women] 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," Bloomberg wrote. "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."
Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign agreed with Warren that Bloomberg's gesture was not expansive enough.
"Today's release essentially tells the public nothing," wrote Biden's campaign manager Kate Bedingfield in a Friday statement. "We don't know how many women signed these NDAs, what percentage of NDAs this represents, or what categories of signed NDAs exist that are excluded. It is well past time for Mayor Bloomberg to dispense with tricks and come clean with everyone he's asking to vote for him about this very important part of his record."
Bloomberg senior adviser Tim O'Brien told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room Friday that Warren's calling out of Bloomberg's NDA situation during the debate helped spur the decision to enter discussions with the three unnamed women.
"Of course, Senator Warren has played a role in the decision," O'Brien said, "and I admire Senator Warren greatly. She's an incredibly public servant."
"Unfortunately, I think the debate became a free-for-all," O'Brien continued. "Mike had a big target on his back. [Warren] chose, I think, to take the position she did which was to use some false information or unclear information to try to pretend that Mike Bloomberg doesn't support women and has not spent a lifetime helping to empower them."
"We're happy to try to resolve this by becoming much clearer with the NDAs that have been in question but I would point to you again that this is a small number of the NDAs that were in dispute," O'Brien added.
