DoorDash Spent $1.4M to Stop Mamdani; Now It Owes Workers $131.5M
DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
DoorDash spent $1.4 million trying to keep Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor, backing a super PAC that smeared him. After Mamdani took office, the city found DoorDash deliberately underpaid delivery workers, leading to a $131.5 million settlement—the largest worker settlement in New York City history. The company now pays roughly 100 times what it spent on the election.
It’s not a contribution, it’s an investment, with the donor or investor expecting something in return. Here is an instance where organized money from a company that was trying to avoid being responsible and accountable, was unsuccessful.
- dayvid
Ever since it was found that they took part of driver's tips for themselves, I didn't trust the company https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/doordash-new...
- dzonga
services like door-dash are literally built on a concept of a sucker pays more. you order a meal that costs $10. total charge comes to $25. then delivery worker made $5 on that order. + the delivery worker expects a tip.
which means the company sees both the delivery worker and the person who ordered as suckers. no wonder ride-share companies jumped onto food-delivery.
- Aunche
Even though the press likes to give Mamdani all the credit for these types of things, this started with a law passed under DeBlasio, and most of the investigation was done under Adams.
- consumer451
Josh Johnson has a great bit about Mamdani:
- time4tea
What does "this is not a pay wall" mean - if I have to give personal information over, that is a price.
Didn't read - too expensive.
- mkagenius
> Founders: Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore (Stanford students at the time)
Guess never got a chance to learn empathy.
- ryanisnan
Money influencing politics again exposes flaws in our democracies. Shocking.
- cdrnsf
DoorDash and gig companies generally are a play to destabilize employment and turn as many people as possible from employees entitled to benefits and legal protections into contractors that can be discarded at whim. How is ordering, say, a pizza via DoorDash in any way better for you, as a customer, than ordering from a pizza place that employs drivers?