Over 300 Seattle area concrete delivery drivers and support staff returned to work on April 11 without a new contract in hand, an unconditional end to a strike that lasted nearly five months.
The strike began in King County last November and broadened in scope in December, impacting public megaprojects and private projects across the region. Negotiations between the drivers, part of Teamsters Local 174, and the concrete companies have produced no movement and the ongoing strike and lack of concrete work forced hundreds of layoffs in the building trades around the region.