{"id":195169,"date":"2026-04-13T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:20:07","slug":"nyc-council-push-to-crush-package-delivery-contractors-is-another-progressive-bid-to-turn-back-the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195169\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council push to crush package-delivery contractors is another progressive bid to turn back the clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

In another bit of supposed do-gooding that\u2019s guaranteed to boost costs for regular New Yorkers, City Council progressives are looking to shut down the \u201clast-mile delivery\u201d industry to appease Big Labor.<\/p>\n

This would goose customer bills roughly $664 a year \u2014 another blow to NYC affordability. <\/p>\n

City Councilwoman Tiffany Cab\u00e1n (D-Queens) wants to slam the small, independent services that contract with Amazon, FedEx, DHL, FreshDirect and other businesses to finalize deliveries from distribution centers, forcing them to directly hire their own drivers<\/a> simply to make it easier for the Teamsters to unionize these workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many would just respond by moving their centers outside the five boroughs, killing jobs inside the city in a sector that now employs at least 50,000 New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

As last week\u2019s raucous committee hearing<\/a> on Cab\u00e1n\u2019s bill, Intro 518, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce chief Randy Peers warned the \u201cdirect-hire mandate\u201d wouldn\u2019t protect workers, as progs pretend, but only ensure \u201cpeople will lose their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cab\u00e1n\u2019s bill echoes the misguided deliverista laws<\/a> that have killed jobs and spiked costs around restaurant- and grocery-delivery apps.<\/p>\n

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Speaker Julie Menin<\/a> has so far declined to take a stand on this idiocy, a sign that her common sense can be held hostage by unions\u2019 demands for ever-more control of the city economy.<\/p>\n

The rise of e-commerce has been one of the biggest recent pluses for quality of life in the Big Apple; don\u2019t let the progressives roll back the clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In another bit of supposed do-gooding that\u2019s guaranteed to boost costs for regular New Yorkers, City Council progressives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[586,301,14010,304,19077,9,56,63,65,64,299,18961,33850,3555],"class_list":{"0":"post-195169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-delivery-services","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-julie-menin","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-teamsters","20":"tag-tiffany-caban","21":"tag-unions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}