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“This is a major victory for small business owners who need protection from landlords during this unprecedented time,” Speaker Johnson said.
By Forum Staff
The City Council recently won a legal challenge to several bills designed to protect residential and commercial tenants during the pandemic. The lawsuit was brought by landlords who argued that the three bills, which were part of a COVID-19 relief package for New Yorkers, violated their constitutional rights.
The District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected the property owners’ claim by ruling that the actions taken by the Council to combat COVID-19 and help New Yorkers were reasonable to balance the infringement of contractual rights versus public interest needs in the middle of this pandemic.
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Yves here. This headline hook is the lofty cost of DoorDash shares relative to delivery drivers’ meager wages, but the post goes further and documents some of the indignities that these workers suffer, like having no where to pee while on duty.
One of my friends in New York City puts the situation bluntly: “We are now a minority-majority city. We whites here to a large degree occupy a similar position to whites in South Africa before the end of apartheid. We have servants who are nearly always people of color. And the people on the top support open borders to make sure those servants stay cheap.” DoorDash type arrangements institutionalize these arrangements and perversely extend support for them into the middle class, since they can partake of occasional exploitation through apps. But the post also describes delivery workers efforts to set up their own coops. Local officials are also looking into requiring gig economy companies to be required to pay at least the minimum wage