Nghe An innovates communication work, aiming at workers' rights

Many difficulties

One of the important functions of trade union organizations is to propagate and disseminate the Party's policies, guidelines, regimes, resolutions and the State's laws to the people.worker, civil servant, laborer(CNVCLĐ). Along with the development and progress of society, the need for providing and updating information on laws and policies of employees and employers is also increasing. Mastering policies and laws not only improves the quality of the workforce but also enhances the rights and interests of employees, thereby directly affecting the political tasks of the unit and trade union organization.

Live communication is an opportunity for union members to exchange and learn from each other. Photo: PV

Although important and practical, legal propaganda work among workers faces many difficulties. With the lengthy, dry, and difficult-to-remember characteristics of laws, resolutions, decrees, circulars, etc., workers of many levels and ages cannot easily grasp them. Moreover, if the content of the propaganda sessions is monotonous and boring, it is also difficult to attract the full participation of workers.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy - Head of Propaganda and Women's Union of the Provincial Labor Federation shared: "There are many forms of propaganda.policy - law, it can be written or press communication, it can be direct question answering or centralized training... In which, the form of direct propaganda in the form of exchange, dramatization, "learning while playing, playing while learning" not only brings knowledge but also brings workers moments of relaxation and fun, attracting a large number of workers, civil servants, and laborers to participate and achieving high efficiency in the quality of propaganda. Realizing the advantages of this form, the Provincial Federation of Labor has organized direct communication sessions at the Federation of Labor in mountainous districts, including Tuong Duong, with the purpose of spreading and guiding".

Fun like... studying law

Considered one of the grassroots trade unions that effectively applied the direct propaganda method, Tuong Duong District Labor Federation has succeeded in guiding grassroots trade union units to organize interesting and useful legal communication sessions. To do this, the union officials of the District Labor Federation must be truly dedicated and creative.

Dry legal knowledge becomes easier to remember and more interesting through games and competitions. Photo: PV

Ms. Pham Thi Loi - President of the Tuong Duong District Labor Federation confided: “With the characteristics of a large area, difficult traffic, some remote schools with difficulty connecting to the internet, difficult to organize; limited budget, the number of full-time union officials is only 4 people, lack of knowledge and skills... we encounter many difficulties in propagating legal policies to grassroots unions. Through the province's communication sessions, we realized that this form of exchange and dramatization has many advantages, suitable for application in school and commune union units, so we are determined to deploy and replicate this method”.

From that determination, after the first two programs with the support of the Provincial Federation of Labor, the specialized union officials of the Tuong Duong District Federation of Labor have been trying to build their own direct communication sessions. The first skill that needs to be done is to build a script. One of the important things to note at this stage is to choose a topic and content that is suitable for the target group of employees being communicated to. This requires union officials to research and prepare carefully before organizing.

Propaganda content must be close and practical to the target audience. If the target audience is mostly women, then the propaganda content must be different from that for male workers, young workers will be different from older workers, civil servants and public employees will be different from factory workers...

The form of exchange, dramatization, learning while playing, playing while learning has attracted a large number of employees to participate and achieved high efficiency in the quality of propaganda. Photo: PV

“We chose to organize the propaganda in clusters, each cluster has 3 to 4 grassroots unions. After choosing the time and location of the organization with the participating units, the program building stage is extremely important. There are questions that we have to edit many times to ensure the information is conveyed most accurately and expressed in the most understandable way. To create fairness and excitement for the program, the organizing committee will only provide general topics for grassroots unions to research on their own, without a set of ready-made questions.”

Ms. Pham Thi Loi - President of Tuong Duong District Labor Federation

One of the most unique contents of the live media programs in the form of dramatization is the introduction of the teams. In this part, the units will let the audience know the name, identity and criteria of their team through drama, poetry, folk songs, etc. The endless creativity and sense of humor of the teams are the extremely special spices of this form of media. It is also the union members of Yen Thang Commune Union cluster who have favored with winged words when describing their media program: "Laughing until my stomach hurts"; "Clapping until my hands are tired"; "Extremely impressive"; "One-of-a-kind"... That is also the common feeling of union members in other clusters.

Realizing that the MC is the soul of this form of communication, the District Labor Federation proactively proposed that the district's cultural department support a union member with experience as an MC. From this request, Mr. Vi Van Hoang has been involved in the live communication of the Tuong Duong District Labor Federation for many years now. "The nature of these propaganda programs is different from the cultural programs that I usually host. The MC of the program does not simply lead according to the available script but also has to grasp the relevant legal knowledge. Therefore, before leading, the organizing committee and I have to coordinate closely and discuss thoroughly with each other about the content of each question. In some questions, the MC has to explain and expand to make it easier for the audience to understand," said Mr. Hoang.

The communication sessions of the Tuong Duong District Labor Federation always have diverse programs and forms. Photo: PV

One of the most successful and memorable propaganda programs that the Labor FederationXiangyang Districtorganized a program in Pha Lom village, Tam Hop commune. Recalling this program, Ms. Loi is still full of joy and emotion: “Because this is a Mong village, most of the people do not know Kinh language, so when hosting the program, there must be an additional interpreter to support. In addition to the 3 propaganda contents that the District Labor Federation chose: Social Insurance, Gender Equality and Labor Law, the district also asked to integrate 2 more contents about not freely migrating and illegal proselytizing. Although the program was long, the people who attended were very crowded, standing full of the Commune Cultural House, the people were very excited and enthusiastic”.

After each propaganda campaign, the Tuong Duong District Labor Federation has created new innovations to make the program more and more diverse and attractive, such as: coordinating with related units on propaganda topics; organizing pilot union clusters; sharing program scripts with grassroots unions; changing games and forms of exchange each year; organizing specialized union activities in the form of dramatization...

Although they could not overcome all the difficulties, with their creativity and enthusiasm, the union officials of the Tuong Duong District Labor Federation brought useful knowledge and happy moments of connection to the workers. So that when returning from each program, the soap, the toothpaste in the gift boxes or the truth about the first and second prizes being only different in the size of the container... all became beautiful memories for each participant.