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UPI Local 4100 Officers, Staff and Executive Board

Ellie Sullivan David Carpenter Hank Davis

Normajean Niebur

Ellie Sullivan, UPI President, IFT Vice President

Ellie headed the Office of Examinations at Chicago State University. She helped UPI organize the original Unit B ASP’s in 1985 and has served as a chapter vice-president  in addition to bargaining contracts since that time. She served as UPI’s secretary-treasurer for seven years. Ellie was elected presiden of Local 4100 in 2009. 

David Carpenter
Executive Vice President

David teaches English at Eastern. He has been grievance officer for the Local for several years. He was elected executive vice president in 2009.

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Hank Davis Secretary/ Treasurer

Hank teaches accounting at Eastern. He has been treasurer of the Eastern chapter for several years. He was elected secretary-treasurer in 2009.

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Normajean Niebur
Recording Secretary

Normajean was elected recording secretary in 2006. She continues to serve as chapter president at the University of Illinois-Springfield, where she serves as Secretary IV in the Criminal Justice Department.

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UPI Local 4100 Staff
Mary Kelly-Durkin
Dave Beck
Kathy McConnell
Tamara Morris Tracy

Jamie Daniel
IFT Field ServiceDirector

Jamie has been a trade union activist since 1980, when she worked in a UAW shop at Allis-Chalmers, Milwaukee. She has taught at a number of public universities, most recently at UI- Chicago, where she is also active in Chicago Jobs with Justice and the Chicago Workers' Rights Board.

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Mary Durkin
Director of Communications

Mary taught Journalism at Eastern Illinois and schools in Wisconsin and Kansas since 1976. Prior to teaching, she was a reporter and editor on Chicago-area newspapers. She joined the UPI staff full time in January 2004.

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Dave Beck
IFT Field Director

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Kathy McConnell
Program  / Legislative Coordinator

Kathy has worked at UPI since 1996, starting in the Springfield office. Prior to that, she was employed at Sangamon State / University of Illinois Springfield for 12 years, serving as chapter president and chief negotiator.

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Tamara Morris
Financial Assistant

Tamara brings to UPI many years of experience in customer service, management, record keeping and secretarial work. She manages the UPI office and assists the financial secretary. She has been with UPI since 1989.

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Pat Tracy
Office Assistant

Pat brings to UPI the organizational skills she developed raising six children.  She has worked part-time for UPI since 2004 and became a full time employee in January 2009.  Prior to coming to UPI, Pat taught Elementary School for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

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Yelverton      

Nick Yelverton
Legislative Director

Having worked as a government relations representative for the Teacher Retirement System (TRS), Nick is very familiar with the issue of pension funding. He is employed by the Illinois Federation of Teachers since 2006 and is assigned directly to UPI.

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UPI Executive Board

John AllisonEIU Chapter President

Jonathan Blitz EIU Rep

(Ann Fritz
Interim EIU Rep)

David Carpenter
Local 4100 Executive Vice President
Local 4100 Grievance Chair

Bill Craig
GSU Rep

Hank Davis
Local 4100 Secretary-Treasurer
GSU Rep

Sandy Flood
NIU Chapter President

Steven Frankel
NEIU Rep

Jeff Hancks
WIU Rep

Marsha Katz
GSU Chapter President

(Elizabeth Ruiz
Acting GSU Chapter President)

John Miller
WIU Chapter President

Normajean Niebur
Local 4100 Recording Secretary
UIS Chapter President

Lydia MorrowRuetten
Chair, Board of Trustees

Richard Sample
WIU Pro Tech Chapter President

Terry Schuepfer
NEIU Chapter President

Stacey Short
NIU Rep

Mark Sudeith
CSU Rep

Ellie Sullivan
Local 4100 President

Becky Unsworth
UIS Rep

Laurie Walter
CSU Chapter President

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