Here in New York, workers’ rights advocates have vowed to keep fighting after Mayor Eric Adams vetoed two bills this week that would have raised the minimum wages for thousands of grocery delivery workers in the city. The measures would have increased the pay to more than $20 an hour for delivery workers, many of whom are immigrants, working for apps such as Instacart. New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has vowed to override the mayor’s controversial last-minute veto.

Speaker Adrienne Adams: “These bills are about protecting working-class New Yorkers from the exploitation of poverty wages as a result of businesses treating workers as independent contractors. Mayor Adams chose to side with corporate special interests over workers and the nearly 20,000 working people these laws would protect. … I’m so proud to support these bills, and we look forward to overriding the mayor’s senseless anti-worker vetoes in the coming weeks yet again.”