A top city official in charge of garbage collection said today he is "disgusted" by an inspector general report alleging widespread loafing by garbage truck crews.
Michael Picardi, head of the Streets and Sanitation Department, said he would cooperate with the inspector general and may punish union workers who violated work rules as well as non-union supervisors who ignored the alleged loafing.
"The ward superintendents are going to be held accountable for this," Picardi said at an afternoon news conference hours after the report by Inspector General David Hoffman was released.
Between May and September, IG investigators spied on 77 garbage truck drivers and 145 laborers in 10 wards. They reported what they called "systemic, pervasive" waste and fraud.
The report placed much of the blame on non-union supervisors in Streets and Sanitation, and union leaders were quick to do the same.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Chicago inspector general targets garbage crew loafers
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