Eastern’s University Professionals of Illinois, EIU-UPI, gathered at Morton Park at 8 a.m. to picket alongside Governors State University, GSU. The bus left around 8:30 a.m. to pick up union members that live in Champaign. At around 11:45, the bus arrived at GSU and Eastern’s union members picketed with the GSU’s union members. They left.
Eastern’s chapter of University Professions of Illinois, EIU-UPI, negotiations have been ongoing for over a year. With the lack of a resolutions to Union members obtaining a contract, teachers did their work at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Teachers titled this event as ‘work out’ suggesting that teachers worked out in public for.
Editors Note: Article has been corrected. With the potential union strike in the near future, students are concerned about how it could affect their peers and what would happen to their classes. Alonna Baisden, a television video production major at Eastern said she supports the professors. “I feel that it’s unfair that you have professors.