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Mayor vetoes grocery-delivery pay rules and street-vendor decriminalization; council vows override
Summary
The mayor issued vetoes for two bills extending pay and workplace protections to grocery delivery workers and for a bill decriminalizing certain street-vending offenses; council leaders criticized the vetoes and said they intend to seek overrides in the coming weeks.
The council reported receipt of mayoral veto messages for three measures: Intro. 1133a and Intro. 1135a, which the council said would establish minimum pay standards and protections for grocery delivery workers, and Intro. 47b, which would remove criminal misdemeanor penalties for certain street-vending offenses.
At the stated meeting a council speaker criticized the mayor’s vetoes and framed the actions as siding with corporate interests over workers. “Mayor Adams chose to side with corporate special interests over workers, and the nearly 20,000 working people these laws would protect,” the speaker said. The speaker called the vetoes “antiworker and antiworking class” and said the council planned to move to override them "in the coming weeks." The transcript did not record a timetable or a specific date for an override vote.
The speaker said the vetoes were inconsistent with prior administration positions, noting that parts of the contested delivery-worker bills had been recommended and supported by the administration during earlier stages of the process. On the street‑vendor bill, the speaker said Intro. 47b implemented a recommendation from the administration’s street vendor advisory board to shift enforcement from criminal to civil penalties; the speaker contended the change would reduce unnecessary criminal justice involvement for vendors who are predominantly immigrants.
The meeting excerpts included denunciatory language directed at the mayor’s action and an assertion that withholding these protections would leave delivery workers reliant on public assistance and tips. The speaker also suggested the vetoes would deepen racial disparities in enforcement, saying enforcement burdens “are disproportionately being borne by Black and Latino New Yorkers.”
The mayoral vetoes were described as having been issued “yesterday” and “late last month” in the meeting remarks; the transcript excerpt did not provide calendar dates for the vetoes, vote tallies for the original council passage, or legal citations for mayoral veto messages. The council speaker urged supporters to prepare for an override effort but did not provide scheduling details.
No formal override votes or motions were recorded in the provided excerpt.
