David has worked for the National AFL-CIO since 1995 and is currently a senior field representative working on a team for leadership and organizational development. The team is responsible for recruiting and training state and local AFL-CIO leaders and staff through the AFL-CIO Leadership Institute, and working with state and local AFL-CIO bodies in developing and growing their organizations.
David began his career in the labor movement in 1972, while working in an upstate New York factory represented by the Textile Workers Union of America that became through merger, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers (ACTWU). During his time with ACTWU, he was elected a local president, served as a business agent, and then elected Joint Board Manager for the fourteen amalgamated locals in western New York.
He was born in South Korea and moved to the United States at the age of five. He is a graduate of Antioch University through the George Meany Center, is married has two adult children and two grandsons.