Big Apple delivery drivers are demanding a sitdown with Mayor Zohran 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.”
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