Some Conestoga College students are OK with Tuesday’s eight-hour campus shutdown amid an ongoing strike by college support staff.

The college cancelled in-person classes and closed its main Kitchener campus at Doon until 4 p.m. after picketing employees bused in supporters to help press labour demands at 24 community colleges.

“I definitely think (the strike) is for a good reason,” student Blake Mayhew said, interviewed outside the college’s shuttered campus. “But I feel like there could be pros and cons to both sides.”

Mayhew and students Aiden Gardhouse and Maddock Green said they want to see the strike settled.

The college said it temporarily suspended on-campus classes and barred vehicle traffic to help mitigate traffic disruptions in “an abundance of caution for the safety of our

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