“Clearly, the local concrete industry is failing the people of King County, and I won’t let our region’s infrastructure hang in the balance,” County Executive Dow Constantine wrote in a news release.
Striking concrete, construction, and cement workers set up pickets in downtown Seattle. KING COUNTY, Wash. — King County’s frustration with the region’s concrete suppliers and Teamsters involved in an ongoing, four-month-long strike has boiled over. County Executive Dow Constantine has called for King County and local partners to develop “their own concrete manufacturing facilities to ensure the future of critical infrastructure construction in our region.
In February, city and county leaders began sounding the alarm that high-profile projects such as the West Seattle Bridge would be significantly delayed were the strike to continue. The county offered up a“Repair of the West Seattle Bridge remains one of the city’s highest priorities,” writes Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell.
“Clearly, the local concrete industry is failing the people of King County, and I won’t let our region’s infrastructure hang in the balance,” Constantine wrote in a news release.
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