Workers' activities
Initiatives to put trade unions to the new height
Pilot programmes to strengthen the role and capacity of upper-level trade unions in the country’s select industrial hubs will be launched in the northern port city of Hai Phong on 14 January.
HANOI (ILO News) – Pilot programmes to strengthen the role and capacity of upper-level trade unions in the country’s select industrial hubs will be launched in the northern port city of Hai Phong tomorrow (14 January).
The initiatives, which will be rolled out in Hai Phong, Da Nang, Binh Duong and Dong Nai by the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) with the support of the International Labour Organization (ILO), aim to give an emphasis to the representation of the trade union in industrial relations, particularly in social dialogue and collective bargaining.
“The adoption of the new pilot programmes shows Viet Nam’s the encouraging efforts in enforcing the amended Labour Code, the revised Trade Union Law and recently-adopted resolutions and guidelines of VGCL, of which among the biggest changes were to promote mandatory dialogues between workers and employers and different forms of collective bargaining with the participation of workers and support of upper-level trade unions,” ILO Viet Nam Country Director Gyorgy Sziraczki said.
The new laws that both came into effect in 2013 were expected to help upper-level trade unions (which include all different trade union levels above companies) play bigger and more active roles in union organization and industrial relations issues in the work place.
The initiatives offer new approaches in organizing trade unions, including the establishment of “multi-enterprise” grassroots trade unions.
The structure of grassroots trade unions will be strengthened through the active support and co-ordination of upper-level trade unions, including the revitalization of social dialogues and collective bargaining at enterprises where the system has been inactive or affected by wild-cat strikes.
Under the pilot programmes, co-ordinated collective bargaining and wage negotiations with either multi employers or one single company will be organized by trade unions in the same sector at local levels, such as industrial zones.
“With these initiatives in place, we hope to see significant improvements in the protection of workers and trade unions from employers’ interference and discrimination across the country,” Vice President of VGCL Trần Văn Lý said.
Details of the event:
Launching Workshop on Initiatives for Union and Industrial Relations Development
Time and date: 08:00, 14-15 January 2014
Venue: Trade Union Hotel, Do Son, Hai Phong
The initiatives, which will be rolled out in Hai Phong, Da Nang, Binh Duong and Dong Nai by the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) with the support of the International Labour Organization (ILO), aim to give an emphasis to the representation of the trade union in industrial relations, particularly in social dialogue and collective bargaining.
“The adoption of the new pilot programmes shows Viet Nam’s the encouraging efforts in enforcing the amended Labour Code, the revised Trade Union Law and recently-adopted resolutions and guidelines of VGCL, of which among the biggest changes were to promote mandatory dialogues between workers and employers and different forms of collective bargaining with the participation of workers and support of upper-level trade unions,” ILO Viet Nam Country Director Gyorgy Sziraczki said.
The new laws that both came into effect in 2013 were expected to help upper-level trade unions (which include all different trade union levels above companies) play bigger and more active roles in union organization and industrial relations issues in the work place.
The initiatives offer new approaches in organizing trade unions, including the establishment of “multi-enterprise” grassroots trade unions.
The structure of grassroots trade unions will be strengthened through the active support and co-ordination of upper-level trade unions, including the revitalization of social dialogues and collective bargaining at enterprises where the system has been inactive or affected by wild-cat strikes.
Under the pilot programmes, co-ordinated collective bargaining and wage negotiations with either multi employers or one single company will be organized by trade unions in the same sector at local levels, such as industrial zones.
“With these initiatives in place, we hope to see significant improvements in the protection of workers and trade unions from employers’ interference and discrimination across the country,” Vice President of VGCL Trần Văn Lý said.
Details of the event:
Launching Workshop on Initiatives for Union and Industrial Relations Development
Time and date: 08:00, 14-15 January 2014
Venue: Trade Union Hotel, Do Son, Hai Phong