Staff Profiles

IFUT Office Manager / Head of Administration

Frank has been recruiting and organising workers into trade unions for the past 20 years. In this time he has built an expertise in individual and collective bargaining across both public and private sectors. In recent years Frank has specialised in collective bargaining across the multi-national sector, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry and in doing so has built links with trade unions across Europe through the various Federations operating in this arena. While doing this Frank has continued to represent members individually on industrial relations and rights issues including disability matters.

Miriam joined the Head Office staff of IFUT in 2021. She brings over 20 years of trade union activist, campaigning and representative experience to IFUT. She has been an active trade unionist since her school days and as a members of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Youth Committee and spent many years working as a trade union organiser representing workers in public and private sectors, both individually and collectively including leading negotiations and campaigns for workers across the country in a number of sectors. In addition to collective bargaining, Miriam’s main interest is in building worker power and influence through union organising in the workplace and across the sector. Miriam is currently representing IFUT on HERSC and Education Futures.