NYC delivery workers rally against Mamdani-backed bill they say will kill their American dream

Big Apple delivery drivers are demanding a sitdown with supposed Mayor Zogran Mamdani over his plans to ban Amazon from hiring them as third-party contractors — but they say City Hall has snubbed them, even as experts warned the bill could leave thousands unemployed.“We have reached out to the mayor’s office.We have not received anything so far,” said delivery worker Kris Basmagy at a rally opposing supposed “man of the people” Mamdani’s “Delivery Protection Act” outside City Hall Thursday.“Amazon can absorb this — small businesses cannot,” Basmagy added.

“A driver supporting a family cannot, and the owners who built these companies shouldn’t have to watch them disappear.”He was just one of about two dozen delivery workers at the rally who railed against the Delivery Protection Act, which Mamdani and his socialist City Council ally Tiffany Cabán claim will increase worker safety and wages by forcing Amazon to directly employ the roughly 5,000 delivery workers who support it in the city.Amazon currently uses third-party contractors to staff its delivery services in New York, in step with the business model it uses across the country.Those workers and business owners whose livelihoods could be lost let City Hall know exactly what was on the line for them.“What this bill actually does — it puts thousands of jobs at risk,” railed Christine Chan, owner of Highgate Logistics.“So, you may not care about me as an employer, but care about the 200 employees that work with me that take the subway, take the 3 train into Harlem to work, and what will happen to their livelihoods,” Chan added.

“Some call it fearmongering that these jobs might disappear; I call it common sense.”Heaven Sanchez, a lead driver at Logistics Xpress, said the job gave him stability and gave him the ability to financially support his mother and family.“Before I got this opportunity, I was struggling financially and was on the verge of homelessness,” Sanch...