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Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash
www.businessinsider.com/zohran-mamdani-targets-doordash-uber-eats-delivery-apps-2026-7
Business InsiderMamdani says NYC's tipping rules turned the tables on DoorDash and Uber EatsMayor Zohran Mamdani said the city's crackdown on delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats is working.
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
“Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%,” Mamdani wrote on X. “In January, we made these corporations change their apps.”
Not on board with this, JUST PAY THEM A PROPER WAGE.
Tipping culture is stupid.
Replying to @ms_lane@lemmy.world
While I share the sentiment, he doesn’t have control over Federal wage laws. Ensuring that being tipped sufficiently is the norm is about the best option he has to protect tipped wages. I’m not sure if he can somehow ban tipped employment within the city or not. If he can, maybe that’ll be planned in the future.
Replying to @chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
Can cities not set their own? Federal minimum wage is the floor if the local legislation doesn’t set a minimum.
Replying to @KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk
They can. Seattle’s minimum wage is the highest in the country, and we even have mandated that delivery services pay this minimum wage. Now they show “extra fees” to “pay for this” like they didn’t have the money for it before…
Replying to @Flames5123@sh.itjust.works
Even if prices just go up from inflation, they’ll say it’s because they’re forced to treat people like people.