Unionized Delivery Drivers Vs. Deliveries Across the country, the Teamsters union is at war with companies trying to ship more things to your door for less money. One would think that delivery drivers would be natural supporters of delivery services. Not if you're the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Through lobbying efforts and lawsuits, the union has made itself the primary enemy of any business or industry that might ship goods or drop off packages without employing unionized drivers (or any drivers, for that matter). The Teamsters have come out in force to support New York City's Delivery Protection Act (DPA), which would require companies like Amazon to hire delivery drivers as full-time employees—an effective ban on the company's current practice of hiring out deliveries to smaller subcontracting firms. Proponents of the bill, including New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, allege that Amazon's use of subcontractors enables it to avoid various worker protections guaranteed to full-time employees. Amazon counters that contracted delivery workers are amply compensated and covered by a range of worker protections. Eliminating its subcontracting model, the company argues, would raise delivery costs for consumers and incentivize it to move more of its operations out of New York City. One study commissioned by a New York business advocacy group, partially funded by Amazon, found that the DPA would increase annual consumer costs by $664. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board notes that federal labor law doesn't allow subcontractors and independent contractors to unionize. The Teamsters have been in a years-long effort to unionize Amazon contractors. Banning the company's subcontracting model would be a necessary step to bring its delivery drivers into its union. As one of the country's largest companies, Amazon makes for an easy populist target. But small businesses that contract out delivery services have not been spared from