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Commentary By Santiago Vidal Calvo

Mamdani Goes After Amazon — and Shows Off His Stunning Hypocrisy

Governance, Economics Urban Governance

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a message for Amazon: Using delivery contractors to perform essential work is exploitation.

City Hall’s message to itself? Just send us the invoice.

City Council Member Tiffany Cabán’s Delivery Protection Act, which Mamdani has promised to sign, would require Amazon and others to employ last-mile warehouse and delivery workers directly.

In practice, it would wipe out Amazon’s Delivery Service Partner model inside New York City.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Santiago Vidal Calvo is a Cities policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute.