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\t\t\t\t\t\tAmazon Workers and Allies Urge New York City Council to Pass Delivery Reform Bill<\/p>\n
Press Contact: Matt McQuaid\u00a0Phone: (771) 241-0015\u00a0Email: mmcquaid@teamster.org<\/p>\n
(LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.) \u2013 Teamsters General President Sean M. O\u2019Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman rallied today with hundreds of rank-and-file Teamsters and New York elected officials in support of the Delivery Protection Act, calling on the New York City Council to pass the groundbreaking legislation without delay.<\/p>\n
The Delivery Protection Act, authored by Councilmember Tiffany Cab\u00e1n (D-22nd District) and inspired by the Amazon Teamsters 2024 strike, would require Amazon and other delivery companies operating in New York City to license their facilities with the city and hire its delivery workforce directly. If passed, the Delivery Protection Act would make Amazon\u2019s corrupt Delivery Service Partner (DSP) model illegal within the five boroughs.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazon\u2019s Delivery Service Partner model is the most dangerous business model in America today. It allows Amazon to break the law while hiding behind shell companies it has total control over,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cThe Delivery Protection Act is the blueprint for how workers can fight back against Amazon\u2019s greed. The New York City Council must pass this critical legislation and do its part to protect American workers.\u201d <\/p>\n
In response to support for the bill from the City Council<\/a> and Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, Amazon has engaged in its most aggressive lobbying effort yet in New York City, spending over $5 million to bankroll a dark money campaign against the Delivery Protection Act. While the Five Borough Jobs Campaign claims to be made up of \u201csmall businesses,\u201d Amazon has bankrolled over 97 percent of the group\u2019s funding since the Delivery Protection Act was announced.<\/p>\n \u201cAmazon is trying to trick New Yorkers and the City Council with a multimillion-dollar astroturf misinformation campaign because it knows that the truth is on the Teamsters\u2019 side,\u201d said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. \u201cIt is appalling that the top killer of small businesses in this country is now using these same small businesses as a smoke screen to push false narratives against the Delivery Protection Act. Amazon Teamsters will continue to lead the movement to hold Amazon accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Amazon shut down my DSP, essentially firing every one of us, they gave us less than a day\u2019s notice and did it over text. No company should have that power over workers,\u201d said Latrice Johnson, an Amazon Teamster from the DBK4 facility in Maspeth, Queens. \u201cThe Delivery Protection Act is how we are fighting back. This law will make it illegal for Amazon to hide behind a fake third party, let alone fire hundreds of people without any respect for our rights. New York City has the power to change how Amazon treats its workers \u2014 the Delivery Protection Act will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents over 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org<\/a> for more information. Follow us on X @Teamsters<\/a> and on Facebook at Facebook.com\/teamsters<\/a>.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Workers and Allies Urge New York City Council to Pass Delivery Reform Bill Press Contact: Matt McQuaid\u00a0Phone:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[586,56372,589,21123,9,24,55,54,56,120105],"class_list":["post-318450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-teamsters","tag-delivery-protection-act","tag-dpa","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sean-obrien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318450","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=318450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}