Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it

Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight.

The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of the City Council, and it would do the one thing Amazon has spent years and fortunes avoiding: make the company directly employ the couriers who deliver its packages.

Yet, the company frames this as a threat to jobs and prices, but it is really a threat to a very useful fiction.

That fiction is the gap between the logo on the vest and the name on the payslip. The bill, introduced by Council Member Tiffany Cabán and since embraced by Mamdani, would require any company running last-mile delivery hubs in the city to directly employ the people who do the delivering.

Amazon is...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to thenextweb.com. To see the full text click HERE