Cooperative structure

Citybikes has been a worker-owned cooperative since 1990.  In a nutshell, this means that the workers own and run the business.  We share responsibility and profit equally among the worker-owners.

Citybikes currently has about 25 workers, 11 of whom are co-owners.  Because we are equals, Citybikes has no managers.  We run the business through a series of monthly committee meetings, at which we practice consensus decision-making.  We share all tasks, from pondering which product lines to carry, to mantaining the buildings, to mopping the floor.  Everyone that works at Citybikes is a trained mechanic, even our bookkeeper.