NIPSA, the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance is the largest trade union in Northern Ireland with over 47,000 members.
NIPSA is organised into two main groups; the Civil Service Group and the Public Officers' Group.
The Civil Service Group has a membership over 19,000 covering civil servants and the staff of public bodies employed on civil service terms and conditions.
The Public Officers Group over 27,500 members and covers employees of Education Authority, Health and Social Services bodies and HSC Trusts, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Local Government, Libraries NI and a number of other public bodies and voluntary organisations.
Officers
President: Tanya Killen
Vice-President: Paul Dale
Honorary Treasurer: Jane Scott
Secretariat
General Secretary
Carmel Gates: Overall responsibility for NIPSA.
General Areas
Deputy General Secretary
Antoinette McMillen: Headquarters Organisation and Office Services. Strategic Lead on GDPR and Legal Cases.
Policy and Research Officer
John McVey: Development of policies and positions on matters of political and public discussion impacting upon the public sector.
Assistant Secretary
Catherine Arkinson: Strategic Lead on Equality, Human Rights, Social Affairs, Health and Safety, LGBTQI+, Youth Matters and Global Solidarity. Responsible for Complex Cases.
Higher Executive Officer
Roisin Graham: Training and Union Learning. (NIPSA's ULR Project Coordinator)
Civil Service Group
Deputy General Secretary
Maria Morgan: Overall Civil Service Issues. Pensions.
Assistant Secretaries
Alan Law: AFBI, Charity Commission, Commission for Older People NI, Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse, Commission For Victims and Survivors NI, General Consumer Council NI, CMTS, DAERA, DfI, Equality Commission NI, LRA NICCY, NIMC, NIPB, NMNI, PBNI, Victim and Survivors Service NI, PSNI, NMNI, Sport NI.
Lisa Mackel: CITB, Criminal Justice Inspectorate, DoF, DoJ, Electoral Office NI, ICT Committee, Intertrade Ireland, Invest NI, Loughs Agency, Mount Charles, NIAUR, NI Human Rights Commission, NI Judicial Appointments Commission, NI Water, NI Public Service Ombudsman, NSL, Prisoner Service Ombudsman NI, PPSNI Special EU Programmes Body, The Executive Office Tourism Ireland, Tourism Northern Ireland, Ulster Scots Agency, Waterways Ireland.
Ryan Wilson: Aramark, Arts Council NI, DfC, DfE, DoH, DE, Eurest, G4S, HSENI, NOONAN, NI Assembly, NI Audit Office, NI Screen, Orchardville Society, Platinum, Police Ombudsman NI, SERCO, SODEXO, United Dairy Farmers.
Public Officers' Group
Deputy General Secretary
Patrick Mulholland: Overall Public Officers' Issues.
Health and Social Care
Assistant Secretary
Kevin Kelly: Overall Health Issues.
Higher Executive Officers
Ian Boersma: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, NI Ambulance Service Trust (NIAST), Business Services Organisation (BSO).
Eamon Farrell: South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Lorraine Maguire: Northern Health and Social Care Trust (Br 731), Western Health and Social Care Trust (Br 734).
Education (including Further Education)
Assistant Secretary
Natalie Shiel : Overall responsibility for the Education Authority and Further Education. Vice-Chairperson – NIC-ICTU – Education Trade Union Group.
Higher Executive Officers
Deborah Adegoye: Education Authority – Belfast Region, Queens University Belfast, Stranmillis College, CCEA, Belfast Metropolitan College, Linenhall Library NICIE, GTCNI CSSC, CCMS CnAG.
Steven Harvey: Education Authority – South Eastern Region.
Ricardo McGreevy: Education Authority – Southern Region, South Eastern Regional College (SERC), Southern Regional College (SRC).
Janice Walsh: Education Authority – North Eastern Region, Education Authority – Western Region, Northern Regional College (NRC), South West College (SWC), North Western Regional College (NWRC).
Local Government, Libraries NI and Housing
Assistant Secretary
Kim Smyth: Overall responsibility for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE), Local Government and Libraries NI.
Higher Executive Officers
Janette Murdock: NI Housing Executive (Branches 501,503 ,508 ,511 and 513), Ards and North Down Borough Council, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Belfast City Council, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, GLL – Greenwich Leisure Ltd.
Bernard Trainor: NI Housing Executive (Branches 509, 510, 512 and 515), Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Derry City and Strabane District Council, City of Derry Airport (CODA), Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Mid Ulster District Council
Steven Harvey : Disability Action, Extern, NI Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) (Br 547), NILGOSC (Br 545), Local Government Staff Commission (Br 545), Libraries NI (Br 560), Radius Housing (Br 549), Branches 725 and 735 Voluntary and Community Bodies.