While UO faculty and staff need a hall pass from the dean to visit their office for 30 minutes, egofice construction continues. Nigel Jaquiss in WWeek, here:
Oregon’s Construction Industry Is Chugging Along Like It’s Still 2019. Some Workers Say That’s Dangerous.
Gov. Kate Brown’s March 23 order did not restrict construction sites. An avalanche of workplace complaints ensued.
… On big jobs like the Intel and University of Oregon projects (which include both the Hayward Field renovation and construction of the new Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact), there are also steelworkers, carpenters, pipefitters, electricians and concrete workers laboring at the same time on the same site.
“We call it ‘trade stacking,’ where one trade is getting on top of another,” says a veteran worker on the Hayward Field project, who requested anonymity because he’s not authorized to speak to the press. “And you’ve got guys who chew tobacco and spit everywhere or blow their noses with their thumbs because they are outside.”
The Hayward Field worker says the project’s general contractor, Portland-based Hoffman Construction, has issued strict instructions on social distancing—rules that, in practice, are not obeyed. …
Be First to Comment