Esther Lynch

She is General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).

[1] Lynch was elected as General Secretary of the ETUC in 2022, the first Irish person and second woman to hold the post.

[2][3][4] In the 1980s, Lynch worked in a factory making microchips, where she first joined a union.

She then moved to become a political advisor to Joan Burton, the Minister for Social Affairs.

In 1993, she moved to work for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, where her role included negotiations on pay and social partnership agreements.