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‘Delivery Protection Act’ Pits NYC Mayor Mamdani And The Teamsters Against Amazon
August 17, 2026 // Opposition comes from a broad-based business coalition—Amazon, FedEx, logistics and trucking firms, all five borough chambers of commerce, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, Tech: NYC, the Supply Chain Federation, the Trucking Association of New York, the Five Borough Jobs Campaign and others. A study commissioned by the Five Borough Jobs Campaign estimated passage would increase annual delivery costs to New York households by $664 and threaten more than 10,000 city workers. With the bill pending a City Council vote, supporters have intensified their efforts to push the vote forward after Mayor Mamdani threw his support behind it—calling Amazon’s contractor-based delivery model exploitative and a danger to NYC workers, drivers and pedestrians.
Ex-NYC Council staffers threatened with legal action to return back-pay checks allegedly sent to them ‘erroneously’
December 9, 2025 // The unionized ex staffers were surprised, especially since the Council in April 2024 agreed to provide the retroactive pay after ironing out a new contract with raises. Some said they already spent the dough, assuming they qualified for the payments. Others said they were even told the checks were legitimate after calling the office of Speaker Adrienne Adams and other Council members