"We Don't Cross Picket Lines": Benson High School Construction Workers Walk Off The Job In Solidarity With Striking Teachers
www.portlandmercury.com
Construction workers have been onsite at Benson Polytechnic High School's inner Northeast Portland campus for more than two years, laboring away at the $300 million school modernization project set to be complete next summer. But in the last few days, workers at Benson have walked off the job in solidarity with members of the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) and their ongoing strike. Throughout the Portland Public Schools (PPS) teachers' strike, currently on its sixth...
  • WalkableProgrammer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Shit like this makes me happy, I’m a white collar guy from a blue-collar family. I wish people just realize all work sucks and the people who are actually working are not the cause of any of your problems.

    The reason I say this is because I have an ant that a teacher and my uncle works in a factory. both jobs are incredibly hard and I would not want them. They both deserve better.