Monday, Teamsters Local 174, the union which represents more than 300 Puget Sound region concrete drivers who have been on strike since November, announced that they have allowed workers with three of the suppliers, Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel, Cadman Seattle, and Lehigh Cement, to return to work.
“We selected these particular companies because of their location, concrete being, of course, a perishable good, it can’t travel a really long way,” Jaime Fleming, a spokesperson with Teamsters 174, told KIRO Newsradio. “Salmon Bay has a facility in Ballard, and then Cadman Seattle is down in the southern end of Seattle. Between the two of them, a mixer truck full
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