Bloomberg sued by former field organizers in two class-action lawsuits

[left-of-center2012]

A group of former field organizers for Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign filed two class-action lawsuits on Monday alleging that the billionaire former presidential candidate reneged on his pledge to pay organizers across the country through November.

Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York city, suspended his campaign in March after a poor Super Tuesday showing, but had vowed to keep his offices open through November.

One of the lawsuits claims Bloomberg and his campaign “unceremoniously dumped thousands of staffers, leaving them with no employment, no income, and no health insurance” during “the worst global pandemic since 1918, [and] in the face of a looming economic crisis.”

Their lawsuit claims they and other staffers agreed to work for the former New York City mayor because they were promised employment during both the primary and general elections, with the understanding that the Bloomberg campaign would continue to support its field offices through November.

“The Mike Bloomberg 2020 hiring managers at the campaign headquarters made such statements to field staff applicants, including the plaintiffs, when conducting initial interviews of staffers before such staffers interviewed with regional field directors,” the lawsuit claims.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bloomberg-sued-field-organizers-class-action-lawsuits/story?id=69753736&cid=clicksource_4380645_6_film_strip_icymi_hed

[Laelth]

1. I don't dislike Bloomberg, per se.

But this sounds like a valid lawsuit to me. Dude should just pay up. He can afford it. I am more than a little disappointed that he hasn’t done so already. If the plaintiffs had to file a lawsuit, that means Bloomberg is being a hardass about these claims.

-Laelth

[Kaleva]

2. An article from Janurary

"Bloomberg will pay staff to support whoever becomes Democratic nominee

Mike Bloomberg will pay for the nearly 500 staffers on his presidential campaign to continue working through November to support whoever wins the 2020 Democratic nomination, even if it's not him, NBC News reports....

The catch: Bloomberg's staff won't directly work for the Democratic nominee's campaign since the cost of operations would exceed federal contribution limits on his behalf.

The group would instead operate as an independent group privately funded by Bloomberg."

https://www.axios.com/mike-bloomberg-staff-general-election-democratic-nominee-8148b285-5108-4470-b8e4-577b3ca07a75.html

More info:

"In the end, Mr. Bloomberg, a multibillionaire, chose to do none of those things. He transferred $18 million from his campaign account to the D.N.C., which intends to use the funds to hire its own organizing staff in battleground states....

The Bloomberg campaign had already paid rents through November for dozens of field offices in states expected to be competitive in the general election. Those offices will be transferred to Democratic state parties, which D.N.C. officials said would hire organizers using the money from Mr. Bloomberg’s campaign. The Bloomberg memo said the D.N.C. staffing would draw “in part from our own incredibly experienced and talented organizing staff.”"

https://dnyuz.com/2020/03/20/im-so-sorry-i-worked-for-this-guy-ex-staffers-react-to-bloomberg-reversal-on-field-organizers/