'When you have all this downtime your demons and addictions kick back in,' said one worker.
"When you have all this downtime your demons and addictions kick back in," said one worker.January 20th’s disastrous mediation between striking concrete mix truckers and the kingpins of Seattle’s sand and gravel industry had already hit a wall when Teamsters Local 174 shop steward Todd Parker got a text telling him another one of their members—a popular guy named “Mikey” in recovery from addiction—had just been found dead inside his apartment.
in the U.S. between April 2020 and April 2021. That’s a nearly 30-percent increase in fatalities over the year prior. Use of the biggest killers—fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine—are all on the rise. “We don’t feel respected,” the former certified paint tech and bargaining committee member says. “We don’t feel like we’re being taken seriously.”
Concrete mixer trucks are upwards of 70,000 lb. behemoths that drivers somehow must navigate through increasingly chaotic and congested streets in Seattle, where “every easy to build place has already been built.” Striking concrete workers are also about to see their employer-based healthcare expire. Meanwhile, four of the biggest general contracting and engineering outfits in the country —Kiewit Corporation, Hoffman Construction Company, Flatiron West, Inc.
“We’ve moved literal dollars to get to the middle ground and they’ve moved pennies —and then they just quit,” Gallagher says.
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