Jack O'Connor

Jack O'Connor is Chair of the EU-UK Follow-up Committee, working body of the External Relations Section at the European Economic and Social Committee. In this role, he is also rapporteur for the Information Report on the Implementation of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, including the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, adopted in January 2023. Jack is an Irish trade unionist, who served as General President of SIPTU, Ireland's largest trade union from 2003 to 2018 and President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), which also organises on an all-island basis, from 2009 to 2011. He also served as chairman of the Irish Labour Party from April 2017 to November 2021.