More than 300 striking concrete delivery drivers agreed to return to work on Monday, effectively ending a Seattle-area labor strike— without an agreement in place — that had lasted industry-wide since Dec. 3. However, the six suppliers are not immediately ready to resume deliveries.
“It is going to take some [time] to ramp up operations,” Mark Firmani, a spokesperson on behalf of Glacier Northwest, Stonway Concrete, Salmon Bay and Gravel, and Cadman wrote to KIRO Newsradio.
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While those suppliers have formally accepted the work return offer made by Teamsters Local 174, the union which represents the
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