Brian Campfield is a

trade unionist A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

from

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

. Campfield began working for the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) in 1978.Suzanne McGonagle,
NIPSA elects Alison Millar as new general secretary
, ''

Irish News Irish commonly refers to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the island and the sovereign state *** Erse (disambiguati ...

'', 14 November 2015 During the 1980s, he was the

Communist Party of Ireland The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) is a Marxist–Leninist party, founded in 1970 and active in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following a merger of the Irish Workers' Party and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland. It ra ...

's officer with responsibility for Northern Ireland, and in 1989 he and

Michael O'Riordan Michael O'Riordan (; 12 November 1917 – 18 May 2006) was the founder of the Communist Party of Ireland (3rd) and also fought with the Connolly Column in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Early life O'Riordan was bo ...

visited

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

to take part in celebrations of the country's fortieth anniversary, shortly before the fall of the

Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the B ...

. Around that time, he was elected as President of Belfast Trades Union Council, serving until the 2010s. In the 2000s, Campfield became Deputy General Secretary of NIPSA, and in 2009 he won election to the

Irish Congress of Trade Unions The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (often abbreviated to just Congress or ICTU), formed in 1959 by the merger of the Irish Trades Union Congress (founded in 1894) and the Congress of Irish Unions (founded in 1945), is a national trade union cent ...

' (ICTU) Executive Council. He became General Secretary of NIPSA in 2010, defeating Kieran Bannon in the election, remaining in post until his retirement in 2015. That year, he became President of ICTU for a two-year term.

,
General Purposes Committee 2015-2017

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campfield, Brian Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish communists Presidents of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Place of birth missing (living people) Trade unionists from Northern Ireland