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UPI Local 4100 Officers -- Staff -- Executive Board
                                       Sue Kaufman

Sue Kaufman, UPI President, IFT Vice President

Sue is a professor of journalism at Eastern Illinois University, and teaches weekend classes year round. She has served as Eastern's Chapter President and UPI's Secretary-Treasurer, and was re-elected UPI's President in 2006. Prior to joining EIU's faculty in 1986, she worked as a reporter, editor and broadcast news director at newspapers and radio stations in the Midwest, and co-founded an advertising/PR agency in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Send an email to Sue Kaufman


John Murphy Ellie Sullivan

Don Geren

Normajean Niebur

John Murphy
Executive Vice President

John retired in 2005 from the Political Science Department of Northeastern Illinois University. He was re-elected UPI's Executive Vice President in 2006. He also served as Chapter President at NEIU from 1988 until 2002.

Send an email to John Murphy

Ellie Sullivan Secretary/ Treasurer

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 became UPI’s acting Secretary-Treasurer in 2002 and was elected to a full term in 2003 and re-elected in 2006. 

Don Geren Financial Secretary

Don has been teaching Accounting at NEIU since 1978, primarily Financial Accounting. He owns a public accounting practice and has worked for international and Chicago area firms. He was re-elected UPI's Financial Secretary in 2006.

Send an email to Don Geren

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/Public Health Department.

Send an email to Normajean Niebur


UPI Local 4100 Staff
Dave Kamper Mary Kelly-Durkin Kathy McConnell Tamara Morris Nick Yelverton

Dave Kamper
IFT Field Director

Send an email to Dave Kamper

 

 

Jamie Daniel
Director of Organizing and Development

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.

Send an email to Jamie Daniel

Mary Kelly- 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.

Send an email to Mary Kelly-Durkin

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.

Send an email to Kathy McConnell

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.

Send an email to Tamara Morris

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.

Send an email to Nick Yelverton


UPI Executive Board

Jon Blitz EIU Rep

James Caldwell
WIU Rep

Charles DelmanEIU Chapter President

David Carpenter
Local 4100 Grievance Chair

Sandy Flood
NIU Chapter President

Edna Fry
GSU Rep

Don Geren
Local 4100 Financial Secretary

Karen Sears
WIU Chapter President

Toma Heldt
NIU Rep

Marsha Katz
GSU Chapter President

Sue Kaufman
Local 4100 President

John Murphy
Local 4100 Executive Vice President

Normajean Niebur
Local 4100 Recording Secretary
UIS Chapter President

David Radavich
Chair, Board of Trustees

Richard Sample
WIU Pro Tech Chapter President

Terry Schuepfer
NEIU Chapter President

Colleen Sexton
Chair, Ed Issues Committee

Patrice Stearley
NEIU Rep

Mark Sudeith
CSU Rep

Ellie Sullivan
Local 4100 Secretary-Treasurer

Becky Unsworth
UIS Rep

Laurie Walter
CSU Chapter President

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