Posted on 08/10/2026 11:36:40 AM PDT by DFG
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is throwing his support behind controversial legislation that would force Amazon and other delivery giants to directly employ thousands of drivers — despite warnings the policy will force Amazon outside the five boroughs and lead to slower, more expensive deliveries.
Mamdani on Monday backed the Teamsters-supported Delivery Protection Act, which would bar companies from subcontracting core warehouse and delivery work at last-mile facilities and require workers to be directly employed by the facility operator.
“Corporations like Amazon build billion-dollar business models by insulating themselves from accountability through a system of exploitative subcontracting,” the mayor said in a statement.
He called the bill “common-sense regulation that protects delivery workers, safeguards the communities where these facilities operate and ensures that the corporations benefiting from workers’ labor are responsible for the consequences of their business practices.”
However, the legislation would foist an extra $664 per year on New York households to get their goods, according to a study by consultancy AKRF.
“This law is just going to raise prices for consumers,” Business Council of New York State spokesperson Steve Smith told The Post on Monday.
Amazon, which works with more than 40 local Delivery Service Partners employing over 5,000 people in New York City, has warned that the legislation could prompt it to move delivery operations outside the city.
A retreat outside the city limits would result in deliveries that are not only significantly slower but also more costly, AKRF previously warned.
“We’re committed to creating good jobs, supporting our thousands of employees and local small business partners in New York City and providing fast, reliable delivery for New Yorkers,” Amazon spokeswoman Kelly A. Nantel told The Post.
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Who supposedly is the “exploitee”?
Doesn’t Amazon lose money?
ask any member of your family or friends who are members of any union about this; it will make perfect sense to them! This is pure communism, union mentality.
Just look for the commie label.
They ruin everything, for everybody ... except the Chairmans/Premiers.
If it's good for Amazon, it's good for the city.
Jeff, you brought this upon yourself by supporting leftist pols. I have no sympathy for you.
I’m from North Carolina. No one in my family has ever been in a union. Except for my wife who was a flight attendant.
Is there any limit to what the city can require of a business operating there?
“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is throwing his support behind controversial legislation that would force Amazon and other delivery giants to directly employ thousands of drivers — despite warnings the policy will force Amazon outside the five boroughs and lead to slower, more expensive deliveries.”
Well, you got to take on the big companies not just the small helpless local citizens to get the big Socialism package. We will see how it works for Mamdani, but I suspect the same way it worked out for AOC.
Leave NY City
It produces nothing and is a completely welfare-city now, a situation created over many decades of skimming from Wall Street, state aid, and especially Federal transfers (based on printed fiat money and massive debt)
Of course, such parasitism has nurtured a radical socialist-marxist political faction there as well - and they have worked their way through NYC’s institutions.
Wants to one-up AOC.
His plan to destroy the city is working perfectly.
Put a $5 extra delivery fee for New York deliveries. Call it the Mandami Surcharge.
Relax. This system works perfectly in Uganda.
Does NYC use any contractors?
Isn’t he saying, then, that the sub contractor warehouses and their drivers he is legally responsible for corrupt?
Why is he not doing something about THAT?!
NO.
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