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Proposed arena interferes with Port trafficThe International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) local 19, filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court Thursday challenging the decision of the City of Seattle and King County to move forward with an agreement to build a sports arena in Seattle’s industrial Sodo district. Union leaders and their legal counsel previously announced the lawsuit at a press conference on October 15. The lawsuit was filed today because, as expected, on October 16 Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, and King County Executive Dow Constantine signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) proposing the Arena be built in Sodo.
The lawsuit alleges that Seattle and King County violated the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). While it purports in several sentences to require future SEPA review and reserves final siting of the Arena by the Councils in the future, virtually all of the 38 page-long MOU consists of planning and financial terms that only apply to the Sodo site. These provisions include identifying a specific location for the arena in Sodo just south of Safeco Field, the commencement of a process for the city and county to co-design the arena on...
From the Oregonian:
Longshoremen and owners of Northwest terminals that handle a quarter of the nation’s grain exports have agreed to resume contract talks Oct. 29 with a federal mediator.
As a lockout threat looms, the West Coast longshore union and the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association have agreed to a mediation agency request that they refrain from public comments. Not that either side was saying much before.
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