Cleanup Workers' Contract: Don't Talk to Media

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Cleanup Workers' Contract: Don't Talk to Media

June 2, 2010

Workers in the "Vessels of Opportunity" Gulf spill cleanup program had to sign a contract prohibiting them from talking to the news media or disclosing "proprietary and confidential" information.

The original contracts were issued May 2, 2010. In a letter dated May 24 which went to some contract cleanup workers, BP rescinded the "Don't talk" clause — but some reportedly still feared for their jobs if they talked to media.

The story — including contract documents — was reported by "Powering a Nation," an online energy publication staffed mostly by students at the Univ. of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications.