There really is no bokeh here. Even loosely defined, bokeh suggests an out of focus area, and this picture is in focus front to back, from what I can tell. Maybe focusing more closely on the sign while making the men in back more blurry would have helped, because the setup is interesting.
To get the bokeh effect in this image, it's important to focus on only one area - here the background really should be blurred to the extreme, or even the sign in the foreground. (Use manual focus and a wide open f-stop if possible)
Hope that helps.
The idea of including the sign with the workers is nice in a photo-journalistic sense. The sky helps not at all...a tighter crop might be in order to eliminate the sky and distracting phone lines. Deep depth of field doesn't really help answer the challenge's request for bokeh, either.
Hmmmm this has no bokeh. With an aperture setting around 2.4 - 3.0, you could have achieved it. It's not a very interesting subject matter, but with a blurred bokeh background, it might have had more visual impact. I hope this helps. ;~D
There doesn't appear to be anything out of focus here. I think you're in for a DNMC pounding. A clever idea, but probably best for a different challenge.
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