Victoria Clipper ferry workers are threatening to strike over Labor Day weekend if a contract agreement isn’t met before then.
Members of Unifor Local 114 unanimously voted on Aug. 23 to strike Sept. 3 without a “fair” offer. The union represents 25 Clipper employees on the Victoria, British Columbia side, including workers in customer service, ticketing, baggage handling and docking.
“Unless the employer shows up to the bargaining table with a fair offer, the Victoria Clipper will be anchored on one of the busiest tourism weekends of the year,” Unifor National President Lana Payne said in a statement. “Ferry workers deserve a fair contract and will take job action if negotiations continue to stall.” Read more
A federal program aimed at increasing internet access to low-income communities was promoted in Seattle on Monday.
During an event at a new computer lab in the Yesler Terrace neighborhood, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia L. Fudge discussed the Affordable Connectivity Program, which was created in collaboration with the Federal Communications Commission.
“I am pleased to partner with the Federal Communications Commission to close the digital divide and to spread the word about the Affordable Connectivity Program. All recipients of HUD assistance are eligible to receive free or reduced-cost internet through the Affordable Connectivity Program. I personally encourage you to sign up,” said HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge in a statement. Read more
The woman suspected in the homicide of a Seattle rideshare driver pleaded not guilty Monday to first-degree murder.
The suspect, identified as Neiana M. Allen-Bailey, was charged on Aug. 15.
Allen-Bailey is accused of shooting and killing a Seattle rideshare driver, Amare Geda, while carjacking his Toyota Prius in the early morning hours of Aug. 8. Read more
Similar to metric scales used to measure weather events like tornadoes and hurricanes, meteorologists have a scale used to measure wildfire risk.
The Haines Index is a common metric used in the northwest portions of the United States. It’s a numeric output that measures wetness and stability components.
“The Haines Index itself is derived from two terms," said Steve Reedy, a Seattle-based National Weather Service forecaster. "It has a wetness component, so that would be relative humidity values at different layers of the atmosphere. Then it has a stability component. How quickly air is moving upward in different layers of the atmosphere?” Read more
For the first 100 games of this Major League Baseball (MLB) season, the Seattle Mariners were thoroughly average.
Quite literally too. The Mariners had won 50 games and lost 50 games at that point in the season.
The playoffs were definitely within the Mariners' range of outcomes, but there was not anything tangible in the team's results to feel that the postseason was a likelihood. The pitching was there, but Julio Rodriguez was underperforming in the first year of his lengthy contract extension. The rest of the offense, as a whole, was bereft of much pop to buoy the pitching staff.
But in the last 30 games, the Mariners have completely rewritten the story of its 2023 season, winning 24 games to surge ahead of the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros in the American League (AL) West division. Seattle erased an over eight-game deficit in the division standings in a calendar month. Read more
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