What we Believe
We are 10,000 nurses across nine campuses, bringing an extraordinary amount of intelligence, experience, critical thinking, problem solving and advocacy to our union,
We believe leadership should bring that collective strength forward. It should listen, communicate openly, provide members with the information they need, and create meaningful opportunities for nurses to participate in shaping the direction of their union,
Leadership is not about being the voice of 10,000 nurses. It is about making sure the 10,000 nurses have a voice.
We are them. And they are us.
Meet Our Team
Katherine Wallace
Michella Vincent
Alison
Lorentz
Suzi
Carbone
President
Vice President
Secretary Treasurer
Recording Secretary
Suzi is a Troy PACU nurse with nearly 29 years of nursing experience and has been part of our union journey since the first organizing meeting in October 2023. A steward and bargaining team member, she brings decades of experience across roles, shifts and practice settings She believes every nurse, regardless of roles, shift, status or location, deserves to be heard, valued and represented.
Katherine is a Troy steward and bargaining team member who has helped build Local 2024 from the ground up. She believes strong leadership means transparency, accountability and drawing on the knowledge and strength of its 10,000 members.
Michella is a NICU nurse at Dearborn who brings thoughtful analysis, collaboration and a willingness to challenge ideas respectfully. She believes strong leadership makes room for different perspectives, encourages meaningful discussion and has the courage to consider an idea when there is a better way forward.
Alison is a Taylor Nurse Care Coordinator whose path to union leadership is anything but ordinary. A longtime union steward, entrepreneur and business owner, she brings years of financial and operational experience. She understands our union's finances require careful stewardship, transparency, and accountability.
Jody Woodley
Trustee
Jody Woodley is a third-generation Teamster and a Grosse Pointe Campus nurse who has been with Beaumont/Corewell for nearly 11 years. A union steward and bargaining team member, Jody has spent the last three years educating, organizing, and advocating for nurses across all nine campuses. She is running for Trustee to help build a transparent, informed, and truly member-driven Local 2024.
Melissa Bosman
Trustee
Melissa Bosman is a pediatric RN with 27 years of experience, including 22 years at Children’s Hospital of Michigan and five years at Corewell Health’s outpatient pediatric clinic in Dearborn. As a Union Steward and member of the Bargaining Committee, Melissa helped negotiate our first collective bargaining agreement. She is running for Trustee to help ensure our Local’s finances are handled responsibly and that members have leadership grounded in transparency, accountability, and trust.
Chau Tran-Yang
Trustee
Chau Tran-Yang began her nursing career at Botsford Hospital in Farmington Hills, where she has served as a charge nurse, participated in PNC, and helped develop processes through UPC. As a longtime bedside nurse and member of the bargaining team, Chau has remained a strong advocate for nurses, patients, and the nursing profession. She believes Local 2024 needs leaders who listen, value experience, ensure fair opportunities, and hold both the union and the corporation accountable.
WE ARE PREPARING TO LEAD NOW
What is the Leadership Command Center?
We are not waiting until after the election to begin preparing.
We have developed a working blueprint for the responsibilities elected leadership would need to receive, verify, secure, assign, approve, and monitor.
A Local representing nearly 10,000 nurses across nine campuses requires structure, shared responsibility, secure records, clear deadlines, and accountability. It cannot operate through text messages, individual memory, or information controlled by only one or two people.
The Leadership Command Center is designed to help the entire Executive Board understand its responsibilities, track the work of the Local, protect important information, and ensure that legal, financial, operational, and representational duties are not missed.
This is not a collection of decisions made by one person. It is a foundation our entire leadership team will review, challenge, strengthen, and approve together.
We are preparing now because responsible leadership begins before Election Day.
THE FULL OPERATING PICTURE
What the Command Center organizes
Each area is being developed as a trackable system with a primary owner, a backup, deadlines, an approval path, and documentation of completion.
01
Transition from trusteeship
Funds, property, books, papers, accounts, access, assets, open obligations, and the terminal audit.
02
Officer governance
Constitutional duties, Local bylaws, board authority, approvals, meeting records, and clear role assignments.
03
Financial safeguards
Accounts, bonding, trustee examinations, bank verification, audits, filings, budgets, receipts, and spending controls.
04
Membership and dues
TITAN access, membership records, dues processes, per capita obligations, data quality, and authorized access.
05
Representation and deadlines
Grievances, arbitrations, legal matters, notices, contractual timelines, assignments, and escalation.
06
Campus support
Steward coverage, committee structure, UPC accountability, training, member participation, and campus follow through.
07
Member communication
Official channels, approval standards, consistent campus information, education, and accountable reporting.
08
Records and security
Local controlled technology, permissions, retention, continuity, privacy, secure transfer, and recovery.
09
First 90 days
Receive, verify, stabilize, assign, report, and build the operating systems elected leadership will need.
SOURCES AND GOVERNING REFERENCES
This leadership blueprint is grounded in the IBT Constitution, federal labor reporting and trusteeship requirements, Department of Labor guidance, applicable tax filing requirements, the Local 2024 collective bargaining agreement, and the Local's bylaws once adopted. Operational systems described here remain subject to IBT verification or approval where required, and review and approval by the elected Executive Board.
The governing sources establish responsibilities. The primary owner, backup, deadline, approval path, and documentation of completion are our proposed accountability system, not requirements imposed by every cited source.
Local 2024 collective bargaining agreement and forthcoming bylaws
OUR PRIORITIES
KNOWLEDGE
An informed and educated membership is a powerful membership. Our goal is to provide clear contract education, ongoing learning opportunities, and practical resources so nurses understand their rights, their contract and how their union works. We are equally committed to the ongoing education and development of our Executive Board in union governance, representation and leadership so those elected to serve are continually building the knowledge required to serve well.
STRUCTURE
10,000 nurses across nine campuses require strong systems, We will establish clear expectations and resources for stewards, business agents, strengthen grievance representation, and develop consistent Unit Practice Council guidelines so nurses have effective representation and meaningful participation across our Local.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Members deserve leadership that is accessible, transparent and accountable. We will communicate clearly, listen to members, show up, and follow through. We will be accountable for the decisions we make, the resources entrusted to us, the commitments we make to members, and the work we were elected to do. We will evaluate our progress, acknowledge when something is not working, and make changes when needed.
VISION
The work toward our next contract begins now. We will advance safe staffing, build member involvement, document workplace issues and prepare strategically for 2029. We will build on relationships already established with nurse union leaders and labor advocates in Michigan and across the country, creating opportunities to share knowledge, strategies and resources that strengthen Local 2024.
STAND WITH WE ARE 2024
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See What Our Supporters Are Saying
Aurora Hernandez, RN
Taylor
It is my pleasure to endorse Alison Lorentz for the position of Secretary-Treasurer.
From personal experience interacting and working alongside her, she is an individual who possesses great quality traits, such as being dependable, dedicated, and a hardworking individual who truly cares about everyone amongst her.
Also, she is an individual who is responsible, trustworthy, dependable, and someone others can always count on to follow through.
I believe she would bring great leadership, knowledge, integrity, and commitment to this position.
Alison would be a great choice and asset to your team with the position of Secretary-Treasurer.
I have had the honor and privilege of working with Katherine Wallace and Suzi Carbone. They have shown themselves to be leaders of unquestionable moral rectitude. I have witnessed these ladies carry themselves with the highest level of integrity in upholding our nursing code of ethics time and time again
— listening to and advocating for patients, listening to and advocating for us.
They have been prudent, reliable, and supportive listeners for our concerns
both big and small. Every time I work with them I am inspired by their
benevolence and compassion. I
have watched them do the right thing over and over — even when it means more work for them. They have given so much of their time, energy, heart, and soul into creating a starting point for us to build a community and career that we can love and be proud of, and will support us in return.
I could not be more proud or more grateful to have these ladies representing us in the service of our union, and in turn, to stand behind and support them.
Nurses for nurses.
Solidarity forever.
M.C, RN
Serena Adkins, RN
I endorse Michella Vincent for Vice President of our executive board because she is hardworking and focused!
Since the beginning of our Teamsters journey, she has put herself in the forefront to gain knowledge in order to educate everyone else who had questions or concerns.
If she didn't know the answer, she wouldn't stop until she found it. She is dedicated, and fights for us because she knows we deserve it!