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    NORTH AMERICAN Newsline                                               AUGUST 07, 2026      |  The Indian Eye 18

                            Mayor Mamdani Delivers

                      More Than $100 Million for

              Delivery Workers Since January

             New report shows workers are on pace to earn $184 million more in tips annually following

                             aggressive City enforcement against deceptive Big Tech app practices

            NEERAJ DHAR

            NEW YORK, NY
                    ayor Zohran Kwame Mam-
                    dani  and  New  York  City
            MDepartment of Consum-
            er and Worker Protection (DCWP)
            Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine
            have released a new report showing
            the City’s crackdown on deceptive tip-
            ping practices by app-based delivery
            platforms has secured an estimated
            $104 million in additional tips for de-
            livery workers since January.
                Since the City began enforcing
            new tipping protections on January
            26, 2026, tips have doubled, and the
            city’s approximately 70,000 app-based
            delivery workers are on pace to earn
            an additional $184 million annually in
            tips, or about $2,287 more each year
            for the average worker.
                “For years, delivery apps buried   I don’t just mean OG Anunoby’s game   Guallpa, Executive Director of Work-  law to restore tipping at checkout. The
            the tip button to pad their own bot-  winner at the Garden. The data is clear:   er’s  Justice  Project  and  Co-Founder   apps sued us over it, the judges said we
            tom line, and delivery workers paid   allowing consumers the clear ability   of its Los Deliveristas Unidos orga-  were right, and the deliveristas won
            the price,” said Mayor Mamdani. “We   to  tip  hardworking  deliveristas bene-  nizing campaign. “Today’s announce-  big.  $104  million in  earnings  going
            changed the law, enforced it, and it’s   fits  our  workers  and  strengthens  our   ment is proof that organized workers   back into their pockets since the law
            working: $104 million has gone back   economy,” said DCWP Commissioner   can overcome even the most power-  went into effect in January is money
            into the pockets of the workers who   Samuel A.A. Levine. “I said it when   ful  corporations  when  government   that helps them put food on their own
            keep this city fed, rain or shine. New   DCWP blew the whistle on delivery   chooses to stand with working people.   tables. None of this is possible with-
            York will not allow billion-dollar tech   apps’ design tricks in January, and I’ll   We are grateful to Mayor Mamdani,   out DCWP’s continued enforcement,
            companies  to  boost  their  profits  by   say it again: under Mayor Mamdani,   Commissioner Levine, and the entire   and we will continue to fight alongside
            taking money from working people.”    the biggest corporations in the world   DCWP team for showing that work-  them and the deliveristas until they
                “When a customer leaves a tip,   will no longer be able to rake in record   ers’ rights don’t end when legislation   get every cent they’ve earned.”
            that money belongs to the delivery   profits on the backs of New Yorkers.”     is passed – they become real only   “When mega corporations imple-
            worker, not to the app,” said Deputy   The report highlights the impact   through strong enforcement. This vic-  mented design tricks to cheat workers
            Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su.   of the Mamdani administration’s ef-  tory is about far more than tips. It’s   out of an average of $5,800 a year,
            “It belongs to the worker who carried   forts to enforce New York City’s De-  about  demonstrating that New York   the Council took action and the data
            our  food  up  four  flights  of  stairs  or   livery Worker Laws and curb industry   will not allow corporations to profit by   shows the local laws that became ef-
            biked through the rain to make sure   practices that reduced delivery work-  undermining the rights of the people   fective earlier this year are working,”
            dinner arrived at your door. Since   ers’ earnings by an estimated $550   who keep this city running.”     said Councilmember Harvey Epstein,
            January, delivery workers across New   million  in  tips.  It  also  demonstrates   “When we passed the minimum   Chair of the Consumer and Worker
            York City have earned $104 million   that stronger worker protections can   pay guarantee for deliveristas in 2023,   Protection Committee. “These tipping
            more because we made these compa-  increase  earnings  while maintaining   the apps responded by hiding the tip   fairness laws don’t just protect work-
            nies play by the rules. We’re not done.   consumer demand for food delivery.    option from their customers,” said   ers—they strengthen our local econ-
            We’ll keep enforcing this law and keep   “Delivery workers  fought  for   Majority Leader Shaun Abreu. “That   omy by putting money back in New
            going after any platform that tries to   years to win fair pay, only to watch app   cost deliveristas over half a billion dol-  Yorkers’ pockets, so they can spend
            shortchange its workers.”         companies find new ways to take mon-  lars in earnings. We refused to let that   it in our communities. When workers
                “New York is a city that tips—and   ey out of workers’ pockets,” said Ligia   stand, and I was proud to sponsor the   are prospering our city thrives.”

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