Trade union levels to innovate operational content, strongly turn towards the grassroots

Trade unions at all levels in the province have constantly renewed their operations and activities, sharply turned towards the grassroots, better and better performed the mission of caring, representing and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of trade union members and workers.

Leaders of Provincial Labor Confederation and Trade Union of Binh Duong industrial zones come to lodging houses to visit and give gifts to workers during the Lunar New Year 2022.

Towards workers

In order to attract workers to trade unions, Trade Union of Industrial Parks (IPs) in Binh Duong has performed many activities to care for and protect the legitimate rights of trade unionists and workers in a practical and effective way. Grassroots trade unions actively collaborate with employers to take care of workers’ interests and ensure the rights of employees; supervise, promptly solve and report to solve pressing problems of workers; regularly hold, promote democracy, negotiate, sign collective labor agreements..., contributing to building harmonious, stable and progressive labor relations at enterprises.

By the end of 2021, the number of enterprises with trade union organizations affiliated to the Trade Union of Binh Duong Industrial Zones signed labor contracts with workers reaching over 95%, and paid fully social insurance, health insurance, full unemployment insurance premiums for employees; signed collective labor agreements reached 71% with more advantages for employees. Grassroots trade union also actively collaborated with employers in formulating and supplementing labor regulations, payroll scales...

Up to now, there are 446 enterprises building labor regulations, reaching a rate of 97%; 370 enterprises built, adjusted, supplemented payrolls, accounting for 80%. The work of taking care of the life of trade unionists and workers is regularly carried out by all levels of Trade Union of Binh Duong Industrial Zones, gave gifts to disadvantaged workers, held movements, football tournaments, folk games, beauty contests for workers...

With the activities of caring for and protecting practical rights, workers have increasingly trusted in and joined trade union organizations. At the early days, Trade Union of Binh Duong Industrial Zones had only 96 grassroots union branchs with more than 18,300 members, now there is a strong development in number. By the end of 2021, Trade Union of Binh Duong Industrial Zones has 460 affiliated grassroots union branchs with more than 133,000 members.

Mai Thanh Thao, Chairwoman of Trade Union of Binh Duong Industrial Zones, said that Trade Union of Binh Duong Industrial Zones constantly renewed the method of direction and organization of trade union activities to be scientific, creative, grassroots-oriented, aggregated resources for the grassroots with the focus on innovation, improve the quality of activities, so that trade unionists and workers clearly see their rights and benefits when joining trade unions.

"Trade Union of Binh Duong Industrial Zones is always considered to be the leading unit in the implementation of innovative and practical activities; is the first unit of the province to give gifts to disadvantaged workers at the end of every year; establish a Mutual Solidarity Fund to take care of workers suffering from occupational accidents, people having particularly difficult circumstances; present bus tickets to poor members to help them return their home and celebrate Tet; establish grassroots trade unions under the new method (Article 17 - Vietnam Trade Union Charter)...", said Thao.

To improve operational efficiency

Nguyen Kim Loan, Chairwoman of the Provincial Labor Confederation, said that the provincial trade union levels organized dissemination and implemented the 13th Party Resolution, the 11th Provincial Party Resolution and Resolution No. 02-NQ/ TW of the Politburo, focusing on the views, objectives, development orientations, tasks and solutions to represent, care and protect legitimate rights and interests of union members and workers; combined with the effective implementation of the Project No. 12-DA/DD of the Provincial Labor Confederation Party on "Reforming the organization, content and mode of trade union activities of Binh Duong province in the new situation".

This aims to build a trade union system and a growing and modern workforce ensuring quantity, quality, bravery, enthusiasm and responsibility, meeting the requirements of the new situation. The Provincial Labor Confederation regularly inspects and evaluates the implementation, checks and supplements targets, tasks, solutions, quality assurance, has a roadmap suitable to the actual situation of each locality and unit, creating motivation to successfully complete the Resolution of the 10th Provincial Trade Union Congress.

Accordingly, the targets are to have 1 million trade union members by 2023; have 70% or more of enterprises and units having trade union organizations signing collective labor agreements; at least 65% consultation and court cases of trade unionists and trade unions will have the participation of trade union representatives... By 2025, to have about 1.1 million trade unionists, most enterprises having 25 or more workers to have trade union organizations; 80% or more of enterprises and units having trade union organizations to sign collective labor agreements...

The goal is also to reach about 1.3 million trade unionists by 2030; where there is no representative organization of employees, most workers are gathered and participate in some activities of Vietnam Trade Union; there are 85% or more of enterprises and units having trade union organizations to sign collective labor agreements... By 2045, most workers at the grassroots will be members of Vietnam Trade Union; 100% of enterprises and units having trade union organizations to sign collective labor agreements; 100% of cases of trade union members and trade union organizations wishing to receive advices and participate in protecting the rights of employees in court will have the participation of trade union representatives.

Reported by Do Trong – Translated by Ngoc Huynh