The Washington Post: Workers, TWU build "a nationwide Bikeshare powerhouse"

Fhar Miess, who supervises the bike checking team at Capital Bikeshare, is helping workers to join a union. (Lydia DePillis/The Washington Post)
Fhar Miess, who supervises the bike checking team at Capital Bikeshare, is helping workers to join a union. (Lydia DePillis/The Washington Post)

Bikeshare workers in NYC and Boston have received national coverage. Now the District of Columbia takes its turn, as the Washington Post's Lydia DePillis writes about the TWU drive at Capital Bikeshare.

President Samuelsen  told the Washington Post, "We’ve achieved the success that we have right now because we realized that the Bikeshare system in New York was a growing and vital part of the existing intermodal transit system. We intend to use our political muscle to advance the bikeshare industry"

Check out DePillis's article:

D.C. Bikeshare workers look to unionize - and build a nationwide Bikeshare powerhouse

The article on Capital Bikeshare was written as part of DePillis's "The Way We Work" series on workers in the new economy.

Previous national coverage of Bikeshare organizing:

 

Hubway should extend do-good efforts to its own employees - The Boston Globe

 

Seeking better wages, Citi Bike workers join Transport Workers Union Local 100