Mamdani, the DSA and the Teamsters are lining up against Amazon in NYC heres how it could backfire spectacularly

A lot of New Yorkers seem to appreciate Amazon’s services – that is, unless you’re talking about Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America and a seemingly unlikely player in this clown show, the Teamsters, On The Money has learned.There’s a good chance, I am told, that the Seattle-based e-tailing giant pulls out of New York if this gang of three (or shall we call them the three stooges) has its way and the City Council passes a local ordinance that would ban the online retailer and similar businesses from using subcontractors for its deliveries. First, let’s be real: Amazon has become an essential utility for many New Yorkers, as it has for shoppers nationwide.It’s why even left-wing class-warfare freaks like Joy Behar of “The View” profess “love” for the online retailer, even if she disdains its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos for, well, being a billionaire. One lefty gripe is that Bezos should pay more taxes, even as he employs over 1 million Americans.

Another is that Amazon is using small businesses that employ gig workers to deliver its packages.There are about 40 small businesses who perform this task in NYC.They pay decent wages to their workers and are required to provide healthcare.

But they’re not unionized, which somehow makes it exploitative.That makes Mayor Mamdani a hater, ditto for his fellow travelers in the DSA and now the Teamsters.Full disclosure: I’m a supporter of unions, the son of a union ironworker.

I grew up with my fair share of Teamsters, and know the typical blue-collar political archetype.It veers between center left and center right but comes nowhere close to the DSA lunatic fringe.That’s why it struck me at least initially as weird that Teamster boss Sean O’Brien – a blue-collar Bostonian who spoke at the GOP’s 2024 convention with a tacit endorsement of Donald Trump – showed up recently to rally with DSA members and lefty city officials to tout the new law as a game changer for w...