Rachel Mackintosh is Assistant National Secretary for E tū, New Zealand’s largest private sector union. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in unions and has previously held a number of senior roles with E tū and EPMU.

Ms Mackintosh is the Vice President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and is co-chair of the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Transformation Plan. She has considerable previous experience with governance of tertiary education organisations, being a former board member of the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) and of the Plastics and Materials Processing Industry Training Organisation (PaMPITO).