Ensuring rights and welfare for union members and workers in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - “Improving the quality of grassroots trade union activities” is the trade union theme in 2020 and also the consistent task of trade union activities throughout the term. In Nghe An, this activity is being promoted effectively with many meaningful and practical programs.
Workers' rights are taken care of
One of the important contents of improving the quality of operationsunionThe basis is to organize activities at the grassroots level that truly originate from the needs and meet the aspirations of union members and workers in the direction of increasing benefits, practicality, and relevance. In Do Luong district, the implementation of this program is associated with the program "Union member welfare" and the focus is on organizing activities to care for the material and spiritual life of union members and workers through practical work, contributing to enhancing the role and significance of the trade union organization.
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| Do Luong District Labor Federation donated money to union members in need to build new houses. Photo: PV |
Before implementing this program, the Do Luong District Labor Federation also launched the program "Contribute bricks to build schools for children", thereby building 7 classrooms at Tru Son Kindergarten and 5 auxiliary works for many schools in the district worth 78 million VND.
Implementing the program "Union member welfare", the District Labor Federation has coordinated with units to implement programs to reduce room rates so that workers have the opportunity to travel, and discounts when buying fish sauce products and some essential goods... The district also signed a welfare program with a local hospital to implement health check-up packages for union members on discounts on examination and treatment services for union members when they come to the hospital for examination and treatment.
In particular, over the past 3 years of implementing the program "Welfare of union members" associated with the work of "Social security", the Labor Federation of Do Luong district has called on businesses and units in the area to have practical activities such as: Program of giving bicycles to children of union members in difficulty (district Court, Center of Culture - Sports and Communication), building a fund "Bicycles for children to go to school", giving equipment to boarding teachers, giving medicinal herb garden projects to the commune health station, implementing a fundraising program to support contract teachers on the occasion of Lunar New Year and unpaid summer vacation in many schools...
“The welfare program has brought about practical results and received the support of a large number of union members. Since 2018, Do Luong has had more than 8,000 union members directly benefiting from the program’s products with a total amount of nearly 1.6 billion VND.”
For the Southeast Economic Zone Trade Union, the effectiveness of trade union activities is associated with protecting the legitimate rights and interests of union members and workers. To do this, the unit focuses on two subjects, firstly, the grassroots trade union team must regularly train and foster legal knowledge and trade union operation skills so that the grassroots trade union can participate in the process of building internal regulations, agreements and participating in handling recommendations of union members and workers.
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| The establishment of grassroots trade unions in enterprises is of great significance in protecting the rights and interests of workers. Photo: PV |
Thanks to that, if in the early period, the reception and participation of the grassroots trade union executive committee with enterprises in handling the petitions of union members and workers were limited, now many enterprises have listened and asked for opinions from the grassroots trade union executive committee to handle the problem. Secondly, on the part of the workers, the law is also disseminated so that they can protect themselves through petitioning and proposing to enterprises when their rights are violated. The most obvious effect is the participation in social insurance when currently in industrial parks, the participation rate of social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance reaches more than 95%.
Improve the quality of union activities
In recent years, activities to care for the interests of union members and workers have always received attention from all levels of trade unions, focusing on contents such as union member welfare programs, supporting social funds, visiting and giving gifts to families in sudden difficult circumstances, visiting and giving gifts to workers, civil servants, poor laborers... calling on workers and civil servants to support "Tet for the poor". On this occasion, when the Lunar New Year of Tan Suu is approaching, the work of caring for the lives of union members and workers is promoted with the program "Tet Sum Vay", giving gifts to help union members in difficult circumstances...
In the past 2 years, the total amount of money mobilized and drawn from the budget by trade unions at all levels in the province to organize activities of visiting and celebrating Tet is nearly 20 billion VND. In addition, the "Union Shelter" program has been focused on by trade unions at all levels with the motto that all poor workers have a house. Therefore, in the first half of the term, 148 new construction and repair of union shelters with a total support amount of more than 5 billion VND (exceeding the target set by the congress), and funding for the construction of 2 boarding houses for teachers with an amount of 1 billion VND in Tuong Duong and Que Phong districts.
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| The Southeast Economic Zone Trade Union gives gifts to support workers in difficult circumstances. Photo: PV |
In recent times, the Provincial Federation of Labor has also directed the dissemination to 100% of all levels of Trade Unions and union members on the implementation of cooperation programs with partners. Thanks to that, from 2018 to now, in addition to implementing agreements signed between the General Confederation of Labor and partners, the Provincial Federation of Labor has proactively sought and directed the District and Industry Federations of Labor to seek partners to sign agreements that bring efficiency and many benefits to workers.
From 2018 to present, the Provincial Labor Federation has also implemented Program No. 2494/CTr-TLĐ dated December 19, 2018 on improving the effectiveness of performing tasks for employees, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of employees. On that basis, the Project on developing organizations and improving the representative capacity of trade unions in negotiating and bargaining wages at enterprises, the Project on improving dialogue capacity and collective bargaining for the period 2019 - 2023; the plan for trade unions to participate in preventing and resolving labor disputes and strikes for the period 2019 - 2023 has been issued.
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| Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation Kha Van Tam presents "Happy Tet" gifts to workers. Photo: archive |
At the same time, pay attention to directing the implementation of legal consultancy and legal propaganda, dialogue and collective bargaining work in the area, promptly and effectively resolve labor disputes; proactively propose to relevant departments and branches to sign a program of coordination in conducting inspection, supervision and monitoring of the implementation of labor laws, the implementation of grassroots democracy regulations... In addition, direct trade unions at all levels to continue to promote the implementation of the program "trade unions accompany enterprises" to raise awareness among cadres, union members and workers about the position and importance of enterprises in socio-economic development, job creation, income, life stabilization, hunger eradication and poverty reduction among workers.
“To improve the quality and effectiveness of trade union activities, organizing activities at the grassroots level must truly originate from the needs and meet the aspirations of union members and workers in the direction of increasing benefits, practicality, and relevance.
Therefore, it is necessary to continue to research and identify the basic interests of union members and workers. On that basis, fundamentally innovate activities to care for union members and workers in the direction of ensuring social security rights for union members and workers and creating differences in the rights and interests of union members. At the same time, continue to improve the quality and effectiveness of activities so that union members and workers have "Ensured rights and better welfare".