(Metro is the county-wide intergovernmental agency which handles public transportation -busses- and waste-water treatment for King County, Washington, including Seattle.) From The Seattle Times, Friday June 5 1992, page E2: Metro has joined the growing list of governments and businesses to extend medical and other benefits to employees with unmarried live-in parners. The Metro Council yesterday, by a large margin, voted to give those employees' parners and their children the same benefit coverage that historically had been reserved for married couples. Telephone calls and letters to Metro officials over the issue supported the equal benefits position by a wide margin, a Metro spokesman said. The transportation and sewer utility has more than 4,000 employees. The benefits package change will now have to be incorporated into the contract between Metro and Local 587 of the Amalgamated Transit Union. -end-