"Currently, Amazon-branded trucks and electric cargo bikes are actually sent out across the city by a network of Amazon subcontractors or "Delivery Service Partners." But this way of doing business is a subterfuge, and as a result "last-mile" facilities run by Amazon subcontractors with very little oversight end up being packed into just a few neighborhoods, bringing pollution, trafficviolence, and safety risks."
"A bill to be introduced on Thursday by Council Member Tiffany Cabán (D-Astoria) would require delivery companies - like Amazon - to directly employ their drivers, ending the "Delivery Service Partners" model. The bill will also mandate safety training, make the companies directly responsible for driver safety, and require "last-mile" delivery centers to be licensed with the city. If passed, the new rules would be enforced by the underfunded Department of Consumer and Worker Protection."
Amazon-branded trucks and electric cargo bikes are operated across the city by a network of subcontractors known as Delivery Service Partners rather than by Amazon employees. The subcontractor model obscures corporate responsibility and concentrates last-mile facilities in a few neighborhoods, producing pollution, increased traffic, violence, and safety risks. A Council bill would require delivery companies to directly employ drivers, end the Delivery Service Partners model, mandate safety training, assign companies direct responsibility for driver safety, and require last-mile delivery centers to be licensed with the city. Enforcement would fall to the underfunded Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Labor and advocacy groups support the legislation.
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