According to our union bylaws, the MCO Executive Board is responsible for “making recommendations in regard to work of the union, for coordinating the work of the standing committees, for the expenditure of necessary moneys, for seeing that the decisions of the Central Committee are carried out” and making decisions for the union between Central Committee meetings.
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President
Byron Osborn
Byron Osborn
President
Byron works at the Chippewa Correctional Facility. He hired with the MDOC in 1994 and has been a chapter official since 1999.
Byron was elected to the MCO Executive Board as a trustee in 2014 and was elected president in 2018.
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Vice President
Cary Johnson
Cary Johnson
Vice President
Cary has worked at Cotton Correctional Facility since starting with the MDOC in 1995. She became chief steward in 1997.
Cary began serving on the MCO Executive Board as a trustee in 2004 and became recording secretary in 2018.
She has chaired the Uniform Committee, Civil Rights Committee, the Efficiency Committee, and MCO’s Correctional Fatigue/PTSD Initiative. She has served on the bargaining team for four contracts.
Highlights of her unionism include participation in the Gettysburg War College and the restructuring of MCO in 2016.
She was the MDOC Corrections Officer of the Year in 2017.
Cary is also a dedicated mother.
Her favorite leadership quote is: “Leadership cannot be given it must be earned, it cannot be taken away, you lose it by lack of performance.”
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Treasurer
Dave Pasche
Dave Pasche
Treasurer
Dave Pasche has worked for the MDOC for 16 years. He has been an MCO chapter official for 13 years and is currently the chapter president at MTU.
Dave was the 2015 Officer of the Year at MTU. He was an ERT member from 2006 to 2011. Dave has also served on MCO’s Uniform Committee for six years, and he served on MCO’s election committee twice.
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Recording Secretary
Tim Fleury
Tim Fleury
Recording Secretary
Tim Fleury has been a Michigan corrections officer at Alger Correctional Facility since 2006 and an MCO chapter official since 2013. Currently, he holds the position of recording secretary.
Tim’s service to the membership includes sitting on the Grievance and Uniform Committee’s; was a participant of MCO’s Next Generation leadership training course in 2017-2018 and organized the UP Crisis Fund Golf Outing in Munising. Currently, he is the Chair of the MCO Crisis Fund.
Tim has served on the MCO State Executive Board since 2020.
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Trustee
Mark Dunn
Mark Dunn
Trustee
Mark is currently an officer at the Oaks Correctional facility. He hired into the department in November of 1994 at Huron Valley Men’s Correctional Facility. He transferred to the Michigan Reformatory and ultimately ended up at the Oaks.
Mark was a 15-year member of the Emergency Response Team. He is also very involved with the Security Threat Group team.
Mark represents MCO on the Operational Excellence in Segregation Team.
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Trustee
Georgiann Stan
Georgiann Stan
Trustee
Georgiann Stan is the chapter president at WHV. She has been a corrections officer since 2000.
Georgiann was appointed to the Board in 2020.
Trustee
Lori Conant
Lori Conant
Trustee
Lori has been a Corrections Officer since 1997 and has spent her entire career working at the Parnall Correctional Facility. She has served as a Union Official for almost 20 of those years and is the current President at her facility. She was appointed to the MCO State Executive Board in 2023. Lori also serves as the President of the SMT Employees Club. Her advice to new employees: “You will learn something from everyone you work with.”
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