"Not everyone on the street making deliveries for Amazon - wearing an Amazon uniform and driving an Amazon-branded vehicle - technically works for the Jeff Bezos-owned company. Instead, most work for a Delivery Service Partner, or DSP, which leases Amazon-branded equipment and works out warehouses on an exclusive basis with the online retail giant. The confusing system allows Amazon to skirt responsibility for its massive delivery operations."
"The current system effectively allows Amazon to ignore the union or just drop a DSP entirely, firing workers without cause. "You could be a perfect driver and have never done anything wrong and lose your job because of something that's completely outside your control," Brendan Radtke, a delivery driver who joined the Teamsters last year along with his co-workers at Amazon's DBK4 warehouse in Maspeth. "Amazon uses these DSPs to shield themselves from accountability to our union.""
A majority of City Council members support a bill requiring Amazon to directly employ all last-mile delivery drivers in New York City. The measure would end the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) model that allows third-party operators to lease Amazon-branded equipment and operate exclusive warehouses. The DSP arrangement produces frequent openings and closures that repeatedly force delivery drivers out of work and lets Amazon sidestep responsibility for incidents and labor accountability. The bill would make Amazon directly responsible for driver behavior and job security, mandate safety training, and require last-mile centers to obtain city licenses. Thirty-four of 51 council members co-sponsor the bill, spanning the political spectrum.
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