‘Going to take some time to ramp up,’ concrete suppliers say of deliveries after strike ends

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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