Eric Campos
Eric David Campos Bonta is a Chilean teacher, trade unionist and politician who currently serves as Secretary general of the Workers' United Center of Chile.
He has served as president of the Federation of Santiago Metro Unions, an organization that brings together the six unions at the public company, three of which are for permanent employees and three for subcontractors.
Since 2021, he has been a regular panelist on the political debate show Sin filtros, where he began appearing during his campaign for a seat in the 2021–2022 Constitutional Convention. While the program was originally created to provide calm coverage of that failed political process, it subsequently evolved into a strident narrative that has not exempted Eric from strong debates.
In his career as a union leader, Campos has participated in international meetings in countries such as the United Kingdom.
Biography
Born in 1981 in Pilar, Argentina, his family moved to Chile due to circumstances surrounding his father's life. He earned his teaching degree from ARCIS University. He later earned a master's degree in communications from the University of Santiago, Chile.Campos began to gain notoriety during Sebastián Piñera's second term, a government with which he repeatedly clashed over the successive dismissals of subcontracted workers at the state-owned company Metro S.A. Campos has also been denouncing excessive subcontracting by the company since 2014.
In 2024, he was elected as World President of Urban Transport of the International Transport Workers' Federation.