Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mark Langhammer is a trade unionist, employed as Director of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and elected onto the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in 2008, being re-elected in 2010. A former politician in Northern Ireland, and previously a prominent northern-based member of the Irish Labour Party. Initially a community activist in North Belfast's Rathcoole housing estate, Langhammer first became involved in politics in the 1980s, joining the Campaign for Labour Representation, which aimed to persuade the British Labour Party to organise in Northern Ireland. He stood unsuccessfully for Newtownabbey Borough Council in Doagh Road in 1985 for the 'All Night Party'. Although Langhammer polled over 200 votes his four running mates polled poorly, with one polling just one vote, which as of November 2008, remains a record low in Northern Ireland council elections