Council members said they needed to mull over all the options. But that's not how the garbage collectors saw it. In the four months since then, city officials have responded to some of the department's other requests. They hired temporary employees on as full-time workers, giving them benefits. The new department director, Mike Robinson, is looking at ways to reorganize routes and phase out the usual cast of workers from a temporary employment agency.
City officials say they're moving in the right direction.
If you ask garbage collectors, though, the status quo isn't changing fast enough. They talk about their campaign often, and say they have no choice but to think of it especially when they go grocery shopping or sit down to pay the bills. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution, or retransmission of any of the contents of this service without the expressed written consent of the Lexington Herald-Leader is prohibited.