Amazon controls its delivery drivers. NYC wants it to employ them, too

Every workday, Luc Rene puts on a shirt and pants branded with Amazon’s logo and heads to a distribution center, where he climbs into a van that also carries Amazon’s logo across its side to deliver packages with the company’s swoosh smile emblazoned on them. When he rings customers’ doorbells, he yells out, “Amazon.” But Rene is not technically an Amazon employee. He’s employed by a delivery service provider (DSP) that contracts out his labor. That could soon change in New York City, wher...