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MEET ERIC
LEADERSHIP DELIVERING RESULTS FOR OUR UNION
In August-2024, delegates to the AFGE National Convention will meet to decide who will lead this great Federation for the next three years. I am running for the position of National Secretary-Treasurer, and I am respectfully asking for your support and your vote.
AFGE is an $80 million organization. The National SecretaryTreasurer must have the ability, experience, and the passion to effectively manage the federation’s finances. My record has proven that I have those skills, and I am not afraid to make the tough decisions that will continue to make AFGE financially sound.
Many of you have gotten to know me over the years:
• I served as National Vice President of District 14 for seven years.
• I served as Treasurer for Metropolitan Washington Central Labor Council (MWC) which represents AFL-CIO locals within the Metropolitan DC and Maryland area. I became Treasurer when the MWC was close to financial ruin, and I brought the Council back.
• I was Chief and Co-Chief Negotiator for a $1 billion Compensation and Benefits package for 8 DC international unions over several years.
• I served in several positions within my local (AFGE Local 2725), and then ultimately the president for more than 20 years.
• I served as Council 211 President for all District government locals of AFGE.
These experiences, along with the last four years of serving as your National Secretary-Treasurer, have allowed me to put together an agenda that I called, in 2020, ROAD TO RECOVERY. I am changing the way AFGE does business as we move to the next chapter:
“ROAD TO STABILIZATION”
I have made it my mission to be transparent and accountable. There is now more accountability and transparency than ever before. We must continue to be transparent and accountable in our actions and in our attitude when it comes to safeguarding our union and its assets.
It’s with great honor and pleasure that I declare my candidacy for National Secretary-Treasurer. It’s has been a great four years financially for AFGE under my leadership as National Secretary-Treasurer and we must continue the progress and improvements.
I AM AFGE
Eric Bunn Sr. is the National Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees. He was elevated to this position in April 2020 after serving three consecutive terms as District 14 National Vice President.
Bunn has been a labor union activist for more than 40 years. His career in public service began when he joined the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development. He quickly rose to the position of Local President of AFGE Local 2725, which represents more than 1,200 professional and wage grade employees in six District government agencies- Department of Building and Enforcement,Department of the Environment, Department of Health, Department of Housing and Community Development, DC Housing Authority, and Office of the State Superintendent.
Following his work at the local union level, Bunn was elected to a position on AFGE’s National Executive Council as District 14 National Vice President, representing federal and D.C. government employees in the greater Washington metropolitan area and Europe.
Bunn is the first local president from District Government to be elected as a AFGE National Vice President and the first to be elected as National Secretary-Treasurer.
Bunn previously held the Treasurer position for the Metropolitan Washington Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO for eight years. Additionally, holds a Board seat with Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO.
National Secretary- Treasurer Bunn has held many other positions with AFGE and throughout the labor movement, such as member of the District of Columbia City Wide Partnership Council; former president of Council 211 representing 5,000 AFGE members within 15 District of Columbia agencies; Board member AFL-CIO Maryland State and District of Columbia Federations; Board member of the Northern Virginia Central Labor Council AFL-CIO.
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