I just learned that you are on strike. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Serving as a union president, I understand how difficult a strike can be, but, unfortunately, they are necessary when an administration does not seem to recognize the role faculty play at the University. I hope that your administration quickly learns that the faculty and the staff are the university and that excellence in education occurs because of what you do in your offices and classrooms and not what the administration does.

I wish you good luck and hope that this strike ends favorably and soon,

John Miller
Chapter President
UPI Local 4100
Western Illinois University