City Council leaders, workers pledge to override Adams’ vetoes on vendor and delivery-worker bills

New York City Council leaders and labor advocates said at a City Hall event that they will move to override Mayor Eric Adams’ vetoes of three pieces of legislation they said would end criminal penalties for street vending and extend minimum-wage protections to grocery delivery workers.

“ We in the City Council will stand up for workers. We in the City Council will stand up for street vendors,” Council member Shekar Krishnan said, listing the three measures the council had passed and saying the body would override the mayor’s vetoes.

The measures discussed in the event included Intro 47‑B, described by speakers as ending criminalization of street vending; and two bills identified in the transcript as Intro 11‑35 (also shown in one place as 11‑35A) and Intro 11‑33 (also shown as 11‑33A), described by council members and delivery workers as extending existing pay standards and workplace protections that apply to food delivery to grocery-delivery platforms. The transcript also includes a worker reference to “Intro 1332”; the excerpt does not clarify whether that…