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Delivery workers hear promise of ‘new era’ as Mamdani targets app companies

BY CARTER MYERS-BROWN
Posted 1/23/26

In a packed room in Brooklyn on Thursday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared the beginning of a “new era” of worker power. Addressing dozens of members of Los Deliveristas Unidos, an organization that advocates for app-based delivery workers, Mamdani announced a new phase of legal confrontation with Uber, DoorDash and Motoclick.

In a forceful speech, Mamdani framed the city’s actions as a reckoning with corporate practices he said have long exploited delivery workers.

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