Extra efforts to care for labourers essential: President
President Tran Dai Quang stressed the need for trade unions to make continued efforts to improve incomes and working conditions and protect legitimate rights and interests of labourers.
Hanoi (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang stressed the need for tradeunions to make continued efforts to improve incomes and working conditions andprotect legitimate rights and interests of labourers and trade unionists as thefourth Industrial Revolution is bringing both opportunities and challenges.
Speakingat the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL)’s conference in Hanoi onJanuary 21, Quang asked the VGCL to focus on grassroots activities, instructtrade unions at all levels to fulfil their role of representing, caring for andprotecting the legitimate rights and interests of labourers, especially throughnegotiating, signing, supplementing and realising collective agreements andholding dialogues at workplace.
Attentionshould be paid to establishing close coordination with ministries, sectors,localities and press agencies to disseminate the Party’s policies and theState’s laws on collective agreements and dialogues.
ThePresident also emphasised the requirement to increase the efficiency ofcollective agreements and dialogues, and expand the scale of dialogues atbusinesses in order to contribute to building harmonious, stable andprogressive labour relations.
Herequested ministries, sectors, localities, and employers to maintaincollaboration with the VGCL and all-level trade unions to continue caring for labourers,particularly those in industrial, economic, and processing and exporting zones.
Atthe conference, Dinh Sy Phuc, head of the trade union of the Taekwang VinaIndustrial JSC in southern Dong Nai province, and Nguyen Thi Nghia, head of thetrade union of the Lihit Lab Vietnam Co. Ltd, in northern Hai Phong city,shared their experience in protecting legitimate rights for labourers.
Onthis occasion, the VGCL commended 70 outstanding heads of grassroots tradeunions.-VNA
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President Tran Dai Quang (Source: VNA) 
