City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams announced Thursday her Democratic majority will vote to override Mayor Adams’ vetoes of bills they passed that would increase salaries for grocery delivery workers and decriminalize unlicensed street vending.
In a press conference at City Hall, the speaker said the mayor’s latest vetoes, issued in the past couple weeks, are “anti-working class” and play into the hands of President Trump , whose administration is engaged in an aggressive crackdown on immigrants in New York, many of whom work as street vendors.
“We look forward to overriding the mayor’s senseless, anti-worker vetoes in the coming weeks,” Speaker Adams told reporters, adding the Council’s “more than likely” to hold the override votes at its next full meeting on Sept. 10.
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