The agreement does not include the living-wage requirement advocates had hoped for.
By Patricia Sullivan Patricia Sullivan Reporter covering government, politics and other regional issues in Arlington County and Alexandria Email Bio Follow March 5 at 1:19 PM Amazon will receive staggered payouts for occupying an increasing amount of office space near National Airport, and get at least two days’ notice when someone requests information it provides to Arlington County, under an incentives agreement the County Board will vote on March 16.
At least two County Board members have said they want to pressure Amazon to adopt a project labor agreement, and some advocates had hoped that such a request would be part of the initial legal agreement. The county’s incentives agreement mostly describes when Amazon would get money from the county — payments that would come from an expected increase in hotel taxes.
As part of the agreement, the famously private Amazon — which required strict confidentiality from local and state governments as they sought a chance to land the company’s second headquarters — must acknowledge that much of the information it provides to the county and state is subject to the state’s Freedom of Information Act statute.
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