Structure
The supreme policy-making body of Congress is the Biennial Delegate Conference, to which affiliated unions send delegates. On a day-to-day basis Congress is run by an Executive Committee and a staffed secretariat headed up by the General Secretary, David Begg who succeeded Peter Cassels in the position in 2001.
Eugene Mc Glone of Unite the Union became President of Congress at the biennial conference in Killarney in July 2011 succeeding Jack O'Connor of SIPTU. The president serves for a two-year period and is succeeded by one of two vice-presidents.
Congress is the sole Irish affiliate of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the representative body for trade unions at European level.
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