Hundreds of rank-and-file Amazon Teamsters rallied at City Hall on Thursday alongside Teamsters General President Sean M. O\u2019Brien, New York City elected officials including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and labor and community allies, urging Council Speaker Julie Menin to schedule an immediate vote on the Delivery Protection Act. NYC CLC President Brendan Griffith also spoke at the rally in support of the legislation.<\/p>\n
The Delivery Protection Act, authored by Councilmember Tiffany Cab\u00e1n, would require delivery companies like Amazon to register their facilities with the city and ban subcontracting for last-mile delivery drivers in the five boroughs. Amazon uses a corrupt subcontracting model in which third-party \u201cDelivery Service Partners\u201d shield the company from legal liability while making billions in profit. The bill is supported by a majority of the City Council and Mayor Mamdani.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazon is America\u2019s most corrupt white-collar crime syndicate, wasting millions to rob warehouse workers of the right to collectively bargain while designing a nationwide subcontracting scheme to deny employment rights to its entire fleet of delivery drivers,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cNew York City is a vital artery of Amazon\u2019s global logistics operations, and it must be the first city to pass the Delivery Protection Act. Amazon\u2019s unchecked exploitation of drivers and parcel delivery workers has got to end.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe workers who deliver packages to our doors in every kind of weather deserve what every worker deserves: a fair paycheck, dignity on the job and a boss who is held accountable for how they treat their employees,\u201d said Mayor Mamdani. \u201cAmazon has built a system that lets bosses avoid that responsibility. Drivers are standing up and demanding change. I\u2019m proud to stand with them, the Teamsters and Councilmember Cab\u00e1n in the fight for the dignity and protections every worker deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amazon has spent over $8 million to bankroll a dark money campaign against the Delivery Protection Act, its largest lobbying effort in New York City and state history. Amazon workers in New York City have responded with grassroots efforts, including canvassing, leafletting, and phone banking New Yorkers to support the bill. Read more here<\/a> and in the New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of rank-and-file Amazon Teamsters rallied at City Hall on Thursday alongside Teamsters General President Sean M. O\u2019Brien,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-380784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380784","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=380784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}