Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Why Would Greg Gracz Leave Now?

Last week, Gretchen Schuldt at Milwaukee Rising reported that Greg Gracz, Milwaukee County's labor negotiator, is the top candidate to become the director of human resources at MATC.

Today, All Politics, the JSOnline political blog confirms that Gracz has applied for the job. They also tell us that the job would mean a $4,000 per year pay cut.

This begs the question: Why would he go for another job that would pay less?

He has only been on the job for a year and a half. He was hired right after the current labor contracts had been signed. These contracts expire at the end of this year and negotiations are to start in the fall.

Does he expect to have a difficult time with these negotiations? Is he having a hard time negotiating on the behalf of the County, when he had spent so much time being the head of the firefighters' union? Or is there something we don't know, but maybe we should?

2 comments:

  1. I think the answer to all three of your questions is yes.

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  2. People will believe what they WANT to believe to satisfy pre-conceived notions.

    Would you rather have someone like the retired County Labor employee, Tom Taylor, who in league with the infamous Tom Ament created a sweet deal for themselves by illegally manipulating County Pension Funds that we will suffer with for ages to come?

    Did anyone ever put good construction on Greg's decision?

    Ever consider Greg might know where he is best suited to serve??

    It isn't always the obligatory worship of the money god.

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