Labor Photo: Bikeshare Workers Deliver

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Labor Photo: Bikeshare Workers Deliver(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Capital Bikeshare employees delivered a petition yesterday to the District Department of Transportation in hopes of recovering missing wages. The delegation included former driver and supervisor Anibal Apunte (at right), who spoke out at Monday’s Metro Council meeting about the plight of the bikeshare company’s workers. Capital Bikeshare’s staff is employed by Alta Bicycle Share, a Portland, Ore.-based company that manages bike sharing systems around the United States. The contract between DDOT and Alta, first signed in 2010 and renewed in 2012, stipulates that employees be paid federal prevailing wages, but several current and former Bikeshare employees filed a complaint earlier this year with the Labor Department, which has launched an inquiry. - includes reporting by DCist; photo by Benjamin R. Freed

 

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