Striking Teamsters make new offer; Seattle-area concrete suppliers call it unacceptable

The bitter strike by around 330 employees of six concrete suppliers will continue after a 12-hour Thursday mediation session ended without resolution.

The work stoppage has all but shut down the construction industry in King County, idling thousands of non-striking laborers whose jobs require concrete to flow.

On Friday, members of Teamsters Local 174 said in a statement they made "a completely new proposal that would (have) put workers back in trucks immediately while negotiations continue on a full-term contract." Negotiators for the companies "balked," the statement said.

"If there was any doubt about the employers' end game with this strike, their continued intransigence yesterday put that to bed," Teamsters Local 174 Secretary-Treasurer Rick Hicks said. "This is about breaking the Union, plain and simple."

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