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Source: WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
Cameron Williams, center, president of ILWU Local 19, is flanked by attorneys and other union representatives (far left, Max Vekich, and far right, Andrea Stevenson, both representing ILWU Local 52) as he talks to reporters, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, about the intent to file a lawsuit on behalf of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19, opposing plans to build a new sports arena in the area south of downtown Seattle, near the Mariners and Seahawks stadiums. The union says another sports venue in the Sodo area will erode maritime and warehousing businesses and threaten the livelihood of union members and other workers. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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A long-pending land sale deal between the Port of Tacoma and the Puyallup Tribe now appears ready for signing after the Port of Tacoma Commission on Thursday approved adjustments to the deal.
Under that deal, first drafted in 2008 and amended Thursday, the port will sell the tribe three parcels of Tideflats land.
The tribe, in partnership with terminal operator SSA, wants to make that land into a terminal to serve shipping interests.
Port officials said they expect the deal will close by the month’s end.
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