New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams speaks throughout a information convention at Metropolis Corridor in New York, Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
(AP Picture/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Since day one, our administration has had a transparent mission, shield public security, rebuild our economic system, and make our metropolis extra livable for hard-working New Yorkers.
Every single day, we’re delivering on that imaginative and prescient. We’ve recovered all of the private-sector jobs misplaced throughout the pandemic, one 12 months forward of schedule; total crime is down in our metropolis this 12 months; and our metropolis is getting cleaner and greener.
However we all know that our financial restoration hasn’t reached everybody, and it has not benefitted everybody equitably. That’s the reason we’re doing all the pieces we are able to to ensure New York Metropolis stays a metropolis for working-class folks.
Final week, our administration delivered a well-deserved pay elevate for our app-based meals supply employees. Supply employees who work for UberEATS, DoorDash, and Grubhub will now obtain not less than $19.56 per hour earlier than ideas. That is truthful pay for a good day’s work. Because of this greater than 60,000 of the hardest-working New Yorkers on the market could have their wages boosted.
This places a refund into the pockets of supply employees, it places dinner on the desk, it helps pay their mortgages, and it helps working households, particularly these struggling to get by, throughout the 5 boroughs.
Supply employees are a vital a part of our metropolis, however simply months in the past, they had been making a mean of simply $5.39 per hour earlier than ideas.
Our administration knew this was unacceptable, so, in June 2023, we introduced the nation’s first minimal pay charge rule for app-based meals supply employees. Since this new pay charge went into impact, supply employees have already seen a 165 p.c enhance of their pay per week and they’re incomes practically $850 million extra yearly.
And this minimal pay charge is elevated to mirror inflation, as a result of we all know that New Yorkers proceed to really feel the burden of the price of residing. Individuals are working more durable and more durable to get by. I do know the hustle is actual. I do know what it’s prefer to battle. I used to be raised by a working mom who struggled to assist my 5 siblings and me. 1000’s of our supply employees are doing the identical to assist themselves and their households day-after-day.
However we additionally know that there’s extra to be performed. We’ve heard that some supply apps are making it more durable to tip and that some apps are locking out employees from shifts. That is incorrect, and we made that very clear final week once we stood with our Deliveristas and supply employees.
That’s the reason we’re pioneering first-of-its-kind hubs the place our meals supply employees can take shelter from inclement climate, relaxation, and recharge their cellphone or e-bike batteries.
And it’s why we introduced 5 public e-battery charging places to check protected, public charging of lithium-ion batteries for 100 supply employees.
That can also be why we plan to create the Division of Sustainable Supply. This might be a first-in-the-nation entity that regulates new types of supply transit and helps maintain our employees and our streets protected.
We all know that when issues get robust, we should put money into our most valued asset: our folks.
That is the way you construct a metropolis the place all New Yorkers share in our prosperity, it doesn’t matter what line of labor they’re in, or what borough they dwell in. We’re delivering truthful pay for working-class New Yorkers.
