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title: Amazon Could Move Delivery Operations Out of New York City if a Council Bill Passes
description: Amazon told the City Council that Introduction 0518-2026, which would end delivery subcontracting in the five boroughs, could push its operations out.
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Amazon has told the New York City Council that a bill changing how it organises deliveries in the five boroughs could lead it to move delivery operations out of the city. The warning is in written testimony the company filed in opposition to Introduction No. 0518-2026, Licensing of Last Mile Facilities, which is before the Council's Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection.

The bill would compel the company to seriously examine how it could still meet its commitment to New Yorkers, Amazon says, and what it would examine includes relocating operations and delivery facilities outside New York City.

## Amazon Says More Than 40 Local Companies Would Lose Their Agreements

In its [testimony](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/amazon-testimony-delivery-protection-act-new-york-city), Amazon says the bill would prohibit its agreements with more than 40 local small businesses it calls Delivery Service Partners, threatening the jobs of the more than 5,000 people they employ. It describes the owners as small local business people who make their own decisions on hiring, fleet management, capacity planning and route assignments while drawing on Amazon's logistics operation, and calls the programme one of the most accessible paths to business ownership available today.

Amazon says that in New York, 25 percent of these companies are owned by Black or Hispanic entrepreneurs and 10 percent are veteran owned, and that another 10 percent came through a scheme it runs for delivery employees who go on to own the companies they worked for. Its testimony names three owners: Jordan Rodriguez of One Dream Logistics in the Bronx, Roman Dekhterman of Falcons Deliveries on Staten Island, and Juan Martinez of COPR Industries in Brooklyn.

## The Teamsters Say the Bill Would End Subcontracted Delivery in the Five Boroughs

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which backs the bill, says it would require Amazon and other delivery companies operating in New York City to license their facilities with the city and to hire their delivery workforce directly, ending the subcontracting model within the five boroughs. The union says the bill was authored by Council Member Tiffany Caban, who represents the 22nd District, and was prompted by the Amazon Teamsters strike in 2024.

On 10 August, Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien and General Secretary-Treasurer Fred Zuckerman rallied with hundreds of members and New York elected officials, calling on the Council to pass the bill without delay. Latrice Johnson, an Amazon Teamster at the DBK4 facility in Maspeth, Queens, gave her account of what happened when the company she delivered for shut down.

> "When Amazon shut down my DSP, essentially firing every one of us, they gave us less than a day's notice and did it over text."
> — Latrice Johnson, Amazon Teamster, DBK4 facility, Maspeth

The union puts Amazon's spending against the bill at more than $5 million, and says the company has provided more than 97 percent of the funding for the Five Borough Jobs Campaign, a group that describes itself as made up of small businesses. Amazon does not address either figure in its testimony. The Teamsters also say the bill has the support of the Council and of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

## The Committee Has Not Voted

Introduction No. 0518-2026 remains before the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection. Neither Amazon's testimony nor the union's public case puts a figure on what the change would mean for delivery times or prices in the city.

## FAQ

**Q: What is New York City Introduction 518?**
Introduction No. 0518-2026, Licensing of Last Mile Facilities, is a bill before the New York City Council's Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection. The Teamsters, who support it, say it would require delivery companies to license their facilities with the city and employ their delivery workers directly instead of through subcontractors. Amazon has filed testimony opposing it.

**Q: What is Amazon's Delivery Service Partner model?**
Amazon contracts delivery out to separate companies it calls Delivery Service Partners. Amazon says their owners decide their own hiring, fleet management, capacity planning and route assignments while using its logistics operation, and that more than 40 of them work in New York City, employing more than 5,000 people.

**Q: Would the bill make deliveries more expensive in New York?**
Neither Amazon's testimony nor the union's public case puts a figure on what the bill would do to delivery prices in New York.

**Q: Who wrote the Delivery Protection Act?**
The Teamsters say Council Member Tiffany Caban, who represents the 22nd District, authored the bill.