Rally to Pass the Delivery Protection Act!

Date: Apr 09th

Join us for a rally at 8:30 AM on Thursday, April 9th in City Hall Park to demand City Council pass the Delivery Protection Act! This legislation ensures that Amazon and the other companies delivering our purchases stop inflicting traffic, pollution, safety risks and highly exploitative working conditions on our city.

Amazon and their supporters will be rallying on the steps of City Hall. We need to drown them out!

The act will force Amazon and other companies to recognize their drivers as their own workers. The delivery drivers in NYC wearing Amazon vests, driving Amazon vans, and delivering Amazon packages don’t technically work for Amazon. Instead, they officially work for Delivery Service Partners (DSP’s) that Amazon hires. That means when workers demand safer working conditions (and safer living conditions for all of us), Amazon can cut ties with the DSP and evade laws prohibiting companies from retaliating against workers for organizing. As a result, the 390,000 drivers delivering packages through DSP’s across the country, are pressured to prioritize speed over safety and work for poverty wages.

The Delivery Protect Act would have huge ramifications across American society. It would set a precedent for other major employers such as McDonalds and Fedex that also use subcontracting to evade accountability to their workers. It would also help regulate Amazon, which is one of the most powerful employers in the country and is currently using its wealth and influence in order to power Trump’s right-wing authoritarian government and undermine basic rights of workers.

NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán is re-introducing a historic bill alongside the Teamsters, the Amazon Labor Union, Central Labor Council, ALIGN, New Yorkers for a Fair Economy in order to regulate this industry that is set to deliver half a billion to a billion packages this year. Join us at City Hall Park to demand that the City Council pass this bill.