The Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee signed a Program of Work Coordination

Thanh Duy DNUM_CGZAEZCACB 13:07

(Baonghean.vn) - The coordination program focuses on the following contents: Effectively organizing and implementing emulation movements among union members and workers; protecting the legitimate rights and interests of union members and workers; improving social welfare;...

On the morning of April 26, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee worked with the Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL); the Standing Committee of the VGCL listened to the results of the activities of the Nghe An Provincial Trade Union in the past time and signed a Coordination Program between the Party Delegation of the VGCL and the Standing Committee of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee.

The Central Party Executive Committee members: Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Dinh Khang - Secretary of the Party Delegation, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor co-chaired the conference.

Attending the conference on the side of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor were comrades from the Presidium, representatives of leaders of departments;... On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades in the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, leaders of a number of departments and branches.

Overview of the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CARING FOR AND PROTECTING THE RIGHTS AND BENEFITS OF WORKERS IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY CLEAR

Currently, Nghe An province has 29 direct grassroots trade union organizations, 2,882 grassroots trade unions, with 170,000 workers, civil servants and employees, including more than 150,000 union members.

In recent years, the number of employees in the administrative sector has been quite stable, the number of workers in enterprises and industrial zones has increased rapidly, currently there are 23,000, and it is expected that by 2025 there will be about 60,000.

Comrade Kha Van Tam - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial Labor Federation presented a report at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

In 2020, the first quarter of 2021, there were many political events and major holidays of the homeland and country. In the context of epidemics, natural disasters and floods, closely following the policies, instructions and directions of the General Confederation of Labor, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Confederation of Labor organized many activities and emulation movements, achieving many positive and outstanding results.

In particular, the work of caring for and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of union members and workers is carried out regularly and with increasingly clear results.

Specifically, participating in resolving and handling 6 strikes, collective work stoppages, 4 labor disputes; directing negotiations and signing of collective labor agreements ensuring quantity and quality, currently reaching 80.8% of enterprises with trade unions signing.

Comrade Ngoc Kim Nam - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

The province has signed 20 new union welfare programs, focusing on the fields of health, tourism, and transportation; directed the organization of dialogues on the implementation of workers' regimes and policies.

Trade unions at all levels organized many social activities to support workers, especially the effective programs "Tet Sum Vay" and "Mai Am Cong Doan" which attracted union members and workers to participate with a total amount of more than 20 billion VND.

Trade unions at all levels have launched many emulation movements. To date, Nghe An is also the leading province nationwide with more than 30,000 initiatives responding to the Program "75 thousand initiatives to overcome difficulties and develop" launched by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on the occasion of Workers' Month 2021.

Comrade Vu Anh Duc - Head of the Organizing Committee of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Implementing the 2021 theme "Improving the quality of grassroots trade union cadres", the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Federation of Labor has deployed many tasks such as: Launching an emulation movement among workers and civil servants with the theme: "Taking advantage of opportunities, overcoming all difficulties, striving, bringing the Party's Resolution into life", will organize a meeting between the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and workers; focusing on implementing the theme "Improving the quality of grassroots trade union cadres";...

At the meeting, comrades in the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor also exchanged and discussed a number of contents related to the issue of social housing and institutions for workers in industrial parks; developing trade union and Party organizations in enterprises; diversifying forms of propaganda for workers and laborers.

3D model of the trade union institution planned to be built at Bac Vinh Industrial Park, Nghe An. Photo: Thanh Duy

The two sides also discussed contents related to the proposals of the Provincial Federation of Labor such as: Unification in organizational management and staffing in units under the Provincial Federation of Labor, investment in upgrading the Provincial Labor Cultural House into a Provincial Conference Center;...

The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Committee of Nghe An province and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor also discussed regulations and coordination programs between the two sides in the coming time.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Regarding the Draft Regulation on coordination between the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the People's Committee of Nghe An province to implement the Project "Investing in building trade union institutions in industrial parks and export processing zones", Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province agreed and emphasized the necessity of implementing this project; especially in the context of investment attraction activities, especially projects using a lot of labor in industrial parks inside and outside the Southeast Economic Zone, which are having very positive changes.

Regarding the draft Program of coordination between the Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the Standing Committee of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee for the period 2021 - 2025, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong agreed with the contents. However, in the purpose section, it is requested to add the following content: enhancing the position and role of trade union organizations in the context of the country's deep international integration.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, the leaders of the Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee unanimously recognized and highly appreciated the efforts of the Nghe An Provincial Confederation of Labor in recent times, through promoting unity, high solidarity, sharing, collaboration, and cooperation; systematically implementing activities to effectively perform functions and tasks; affirming the role of protecting the legitimate and legal rights and interests of workers; and having many practical activities to care for workers.

TRADE UNIONS ARE THE RELIANCE AND PLACE OF TRUST FOR WORKERS

Speaking at the meeting, comrade Nguyen Dinh Khang - Secretary of the Party Committee, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor thanked the province for its attention to the activities of trade unions at all levels, and congratulated Nghe An on its socio-economic achievements in 2020 and the first months of 2021 in the difficult context due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the context of a rapidly increasing workforce, the President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor suggested that the province continue to pay more attention to trade union activities.

Comrade Nguyen Dinh Khang - Party Secretary, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Emphasizing that the method to develop trade union organizations in enterprises also needs to be innovated, that is, in parallel with persuading and mobilizing workers and laborers, it is necessary to discuss and persuade business owners. Comrade Nguyen Dinh Khang suggested that the provincial Party Committee and government support trade union organizations, especially in the process of attracting investment, it is necessary to discuss with investors to create conditions for the establishment of trade unions.

In addition, the President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor also hopes that the province will continue to direct all levels and sectors to coordinate with trade union organizations to perform well their tasks to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of union members and workers in the province.

Speaking at the meeting, Nghe An Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy discussed some of the province's outstanding achievements in recent times; at the same time, he thanked the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor for its support, sharing and assistance to the province, and directly the provincial Confederation of Labor.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Thanh Duy

Analyzing the advantages and difficulties in the current general context for Nghe An province, especially the extremely complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, the flow of investment capital; the work of streamlining the payroll, and restructuring the apparatus, the Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee emphasized the very high requirements for the province's political system, including the trade union organization.

Accordingly, trade unions must continue to innovate activities such as: propaganda work; pay special attention to, promote and expand the trade union network in enterprises; to effectively implement this content, trade unions must proactively advise the Party Committee and closely coordinate with the government.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy and Comrade Nguyen Dinh Khang signed the Program of coordination between the Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the Standing Committee of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, period 2021 - 2025. Photo: Thanh Duy

In addition, trade unions need to continue to pay attention to, strengthen and affirm their role in the socio-economic development of the province through inspecting the implementation of democratic regulations in agencies and enterprises; inspecting and examining the implementation of regimes and policies related to workers; agreeing and negotiating to sign collective labor agreements with enterprises, thereby the trade union is truly a support and a place for workers to place their trust.

Strengthening Party building and Party development among workers; focusing on effectively implementing the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic; coordinating well the election of National Assembly deputies and People's Council deputies at all levels for the 2021-2026 term.

The Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor presented a souvenir to the Standing Committee of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy
The Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee presented a souvenir to the Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the meeting, Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee Thai Thanh Quy and Secretary of the Party Delegation, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Nguyen Dinh Khang signed the Program of coordination between the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee and the Party Delegation of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, period 2021 - 2025.

The program of coordination of work for the period 2021 - 2025 focuses on 5 contents: organization, apparatus and staff work; effective implementation of emulation movements among union members and workers; management of labor organizations at enterprises; care for and protection of the legitimate and legal rights and interests of union members and workers, improving social welfare and other issues.

Regarding the Coordination Regulation between the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the People's Committee of Nghe An province to implement the Project "Investing in building trade union institutions in industrial parks and export processing zones", the two sides agreed that after reviewing, they will sign it in the near future.

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