John William MacBean AM (11 July 1935 – 26 May 2024) was an Australian trade union leader and Secretary of the Labor Council of New South Wales from 1984 to 1988.
His father was a first aid attendant at the Broadmeadow locomotive workshops and later Vice-President of the state branch of the Australian Railways Union.
In 1972 he was appointed as industrial officer at the Labor Council of New South Wales, the peak representative body for trade unions in the state, and then elected as an organiser in 1975.
[1] MacBean was a member of the right wing of the labour movement and was supported by the Secretary of the Labor Council, Barrie Unsworth, who was also from the right.
[1] He also served as President of the NSW branch of the ALP from 1983 to 1989, as well as Senior Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1985 to 1989.