To arouse the patriotic and emulation spirit among workers

The patriotic emulation movement, in which the focus is on the movement "Good Labor - Creative Labor" was launched by Trade Union of Vietnam - Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) and actively responded by all-level trade unions, has made a spreading effect and became a mass movement among workers. The movement has strongly aroused the patriotic emulation, creative and dynamic spirit to overcome difficulties among workers.

VSIP trade union reward 10 collectives and 387 individuals having excellent results in the 2022 "Good Labor - Creative Labor" emulation movement.

Many initiatives are worth millions of dollars

In response to the "Good Labor - Creative Labor" emulation movement launched by VSIP Trade Union, grassroots trade unions actively coordinated with director boards to implement and disseminate initiative and creativity activities among union members and workers. Some examples are at Midea Consumer Electric Company, Fujikura Fiber Optics Vietnam Company, Saigon Stec Company... The movement is carried out in all office departments, in enterprises, and integrated with technological innovation, in-depth investment, saving raw materials, creating new products, application into production activities to bring profits of billions of VND for enterprises, raise income of workers; at the same time improve and protect the working environment.

For example, technical initiatives and improvements of Nguyen Thanh Son (Midea Consumer Electric Vietnam Company) and his project "Improving efficiency of VAC 1 Model 21A line ". He said, before the improvement scheme, productivity (UPH) was 60 products/hour, number of workers was 55, performance 1.1. After the improvement, the productivity is now 140 products/hour, efficiency is increased by 2.3, hours of profit 48,379.4 hours / year, with the total value of economic benefit for the company of more than 1.1 billion / year.

"Working at the company, I set and strive for the goal that production must be safe, the quality of products must be guaranteed, the output must reach targets. Therefore, many initiatives, improvements were born as encountering errors in the production process. My initiatives were recognized and praised by the board of directors and Trade Union. This is the motivation for me to continue and strive for more initiatives in the coming time," Son said.

To spread the emulation movement

Dang Thi Kim Chi, President of VSIP Trade Union, said that the movement of "Good Labor - Creative Labor" launched by VSIP Trade Union has received the active response of workers, and business owners. Many emulation movement activities were held in enterprises with the purpose of creating a favorable environment for workers to fully promote their capability in their field of expertise, join hands with enterprises to create new, diverse and high-quality products, strengthening the good reputation for enterprises on the market. Trade union officials have fulfilled their role in propagating and directly mobilizing workers to join the movement, absorb new opinions, ideas and discuss with director boards for practical implementation and application. Creative topics, initiatives and ideas are always appreciated and recognized by business owners. As a result, the number of workers that developed initiatives, as well as the quality of the initiatives recognized annually, has increased.

According to Chi, the "Good Labor - Creative Labor" movement has significant effect in the production process. In addition to creating a positive, effective and fun working atmosphere, workers need to be motivated to demonstrate their capability, developed initiatives and specific solutions for the goal of making production and business activities faster and better, reducing investment costs.

Therefore, in the coming time, VSIP Trade Union will continue to strengthen education and propagation of the purpose and meaning of the emulation movement in order to create a strong change in officials and workers’ awareness, for workers to consider emulation work as a joy and motivation for the development of themselves and businesses. Grassroots Trade Unions actively offer advices to business owners to establish initiative development groups, including members having considerable professional expertise, to assist and develop well improvements and initiatives of workers at enterprises.

"Periodically, trade unions organize the summary of emulation movements from time to time to promptly reward and encourage individuals and collectives that made good achievements in the emulation movements; to apply and expand good and effectives models to spread the movement; at the same time, introduce outstanding workers of the emulation movement to foster, receive training, be ready for the Party admission", said Dang Thi Kim Chi.

Reported by Do Trong – Translated by Ngoc Huynh