1 Million Initiatives Program for Socio-Economic Recovery After the Pandemic

LEVERAGE TO PROMOTE CREATIVE LABOR

In 2021, facing the severe impacts of the pandemic, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor launched the program "75 thousand initiatives, overcoming difficulties, developing" among workers, civil servants, and laborers. In nearly 3 months of competition on the digital technology platform, the program received 250,177 participating initiatives, exceeding 300% of the original target, with a total value of benefits up to 148,967 billion VND. In addition, there are many initiatives of political and social significance, innovating management and operation, promoting the improvement of the quality of community life. This is considered an optimistic highlight amid much negative information due to the pandemic.

The Provincial Federation of Labor honored collectives with high achievements in the 2021 competition of 75,000 initiatives to overcome difficulties and develop. Photo: DT

In this meaningful program, Nghe An Trade Union has actively deployed and disseminated this program to each union member. With more than 23 thousand initiatives updated from all districts, cities, towns and sectors in the province, Nghe An ranked first nationwide in terms of quantity. Through the movement, many typical collectives and individuals with creative labor have emerged, such as Ms. Nguyen Thi Hanh - technical officer of the Agricultural Technical Department of Nghe An Plant Seed Center, Mr. Hoang Trong Su - Mechanical Supervisor at the garage department of TH Milk Food Joint Stock Company, Mr. Hoa Van Tan - technical worker of Minh Anh - Kim Lien Garment Company, etc.

From the success of the program "75 thousand initiatives, overcoming difficulties, developing", in order to effectively implement the special emulation movement "The whole country unites, joins hands, and competes to prevent, fight and defeat the Covid-19 pandemic" launched by the Prime Minister, in 2022, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has implemented the program "1 million initiatives to strive to overcome difficulties, be creative, and determined to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic".

The "Creative Labor" movement can help revive the economy after losses caused by the pandemic. Photo: PV

Through the program, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor focuses on the goal of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic and taking care of the lives and stabilizing jobs for union members and workers, contributing to the recovery and development of production and business of enterprises, while also linking with the theme of studying and following President Ho Chi Minh. Accordingly, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor requests that each cadre, union member and worker strive to overcome difficulties,never stop creating, contributing to the development of agencies, enterprises in particular, trade unions and the country in general.

From this program, the trade union organization hopes that each trade union official needs to strongly innovate thinking and action to meet the requirements of the Vietnam Trade Union in the new situation, proactively improve capacity, qualifications, qualities, bravery, practice flexibility and creativity. From there, actively participate in the emulation movement "Innovation, creativity, efficiency in the activities of the Trade Union organization", promote intelligence in the process of organizing activities and implementing tasks with the goal of "All for union members and workers". The program is also an opportunity for union members who are workers, cadres, civil servants, public employees, and employees of public service units to compete, innovate, be creative and be recognized.

MOMENTUM FOR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Understanding the meaning and importance of the program, the Provincial Federation of Labor issued Plan No. 13/KH-LĐLĐ dated February 24, 2022 on implementing the Program "01 million ideas- efforts to overcome difficulties, creativity, determination to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic". Accordingly, Nghe An Trade Union aims to have 15,000 initiatives participating in this program.

Photo: DT

At the conference to deploy the program, Vice Chairman of the Provincial Federation of Labor Nguyen Chi Cong emphasized: “Trade unions at all levels must consider the program as a key task and strive to achieve the set goals. The committees need to assign union officials to monitor the district and industry, and the district and industry union officials are assigned to support union members at the grassroots union. The district and industry Labor Federations need to develop detailed and methodical plans, deploy the program to each union member, determine the minimum number of initiatives at each stage and each unit, focus on propaganda work, update participation results, promptly recognize and encourage to create competition, especially in the group of initiatives at enterprises. In addition, there needs to be coordination and participation of agencies, unions, district and industry leaders...”.

The leaders of the Provincial Federation of Labor also expect that Nghe An Trade Union will continue to promote its strengths in the number of participating initiatives and improve the quality of initiatives in this program, focusing more on improvements in the business and production sector. Sharing about the program, Ms. Tran Thi Nguyet - Vice President of the Dong Nam Economic Zone Trade Union shared: "At a time when businesses are heavily affected by the epidemic, the business and production situation is losing money, facing many difficulties, this movement is really necessary. We will continue to urge the spirit of creative labor and innovation among workers and laborers. During this period, the Dong Nam Economic Zone Trade Union is focusing on propaganda work in many forms, how to bring the program to each union member and laborer, achieving the goal of each affiliated grassroots union having at least 10% of union members and laborers with initiatives to participate in the program".

At Minh Anh Kim Lien Garment Joint Stock Company, the company honors all initiatives of employees, including initiatives and value improvements that only bring in a few hundred thousand dong in profit. Photo: DT

As a company that focuses on, invests in and regularly applies innovations and improvements in the production process, Minh Anh Kim Lien Garment Joint Stock Company is known as the cradle of many creative workers. Sharing about the importance of innovation in labor and production, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Sinh - General Director of the company said: “High technology and modern machinery are extremely important factors for the production of the enterprise. However, the company cannot continuously invest huge amounts of money to replace machinery. Instead, we invest in workers, encourage workers to update technology, innovate, and improve to increase productivity and save costs. The reality at our company has proven that this investment is correct”. With the encouraging spirit of the leader, Minh Anh Garment Joint Stock Company received many initiatives from workers and honored even the smallest initiatives.

In the program “75 thousand initiatives to overcome difficulties and develop”, Mr. Hoang Van Truong – Maintenance Supervisor of MNS Feed Nghe An Co., Ltd. is one of the typical individuals and was recognized for many valuable initiatives. At the company, he is also the person assigned to urge and support others to realize their ideas. “As technical workers, we ourselves also want to have the opportunity and environment to promote our strengths in research, innovation, and create many values. Hopefully in the coming time, with the attention of businesses and unions, we will have many opportunities to demonstrate and be recognized appropriately” – Mr. Truong said.

Many workers themselves also want opportunities and an environment to be creative and develop their strengths. Photo: PV

To encourage and motivate union members and workers to participate in the program, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, Nghe An Provincial Labor Federation and trade unions at all levels will organize to commend and reward outstanding initiatives, collectives and individuals on a quarterly and periodic basis.

The program "1 million initiatives to overcome difficulties, be creative, and determined to win the Covid-19 pandemic" is divided into 2 phases: Phase 1 (from now until the end of May 2022 with the target of 300,000 initiatives (initiatives are counted from September 1, 2021). Phase 2 (from June 2022 to September 2023 with the target of 700,000 initiatives.

Hoai Phuong