Trade Union News

Union meals for 124 workers are worth more than three days

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HCMC - The grassroots trade union of the enterprise organized a trade union meal for 124 employees, with the meal value three times higher than normal days.

Aspiration to change the lives of thousands of billion-dollar industrial parks in Lang Son

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Lang Son - Local people are hoping that industrial parks and clusters in the province will soon be completed and operated synchronously.

Benefit level, duration and timing of unemployment benefits 2026

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The level of benefits, duration of benefits, time of benefits and documents, order and procedures for receiving unemployment benefits are stipulated in Article 39 of the 2025 Law on Employment as follows.

Many union members will be exempted from paying union fees from July 1, 2025

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In Decision 61/QD-TLD issued on July 29, 2025, many union members will be exempted from paying union fees from July 1, 2025.

Emulation cluster No. 5 in Thanh Hoa deploys tasks for the last 6 months of the year

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Thanh Hoa - Emulation Cluster No. 5, the Provincial Federation of Labor has just held a meeting to deploy key tasks for the last 6 months of 2025.

256 officials received training in Trade Union skills

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Soc Trang - 256 officials attended the 2024 Trade Union official training course.

Vietnam Trade Union delegates attend Energy Industry Conference

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From October 21-24, the Vietnam Trade Union Delegation participated in the Conference "Energy sector and just transition - Implementation of practical guidelines".

Establishment of the Trade Union of B&T Wind Power Joint Stock Company

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Quang Binh - The Industry and Trade Union has just held a ceremony to announce the decision to establish the grassroots union of B&T Wind Power Joint Stock Company.

Submitting to the National Assembly the amended Law on Health Insurance: Serious illnesses are transferred directly to higher levels

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The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance (HI) eliminates referral procedures for some cases of rare diseases, serious diseases... to create convenience, reduce out-of-pocket expenses for people, and save costs.

Maintain union funds to better care for workers

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The majority of National Assembly deputies agreed to maintain the 2% union budget, and at the same time said that it is necessary to ensure the organization and staff of the union to help the union have a stronger voice in representing and protecting the rights of union members and workers.

Draft revised Trade Union Law specifies the representation rights of Trade Unions

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Talking to Lao Dong Newspaper reporters, experts were all very impressed with the activities organized by the Vietnam Trade Union to care for and protect the legitimate rights and interests of union members and workers in recent times.

Amending and supplementing the law to ensure the rights of health insurance participants

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After 15 years of implementing the Law on Health Insurance (HI), many important results have been achieved, but there have also been problems, inadequacies, and limitations that need to be adjusted.

Voice of consensus from the grassroots

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Trade union officials and workers at the grassroots level hope that the draft Trade Union Law (amended), especially the issue of trade union funding, will be soon passed to create motivation for activities of representing, protecting and caring for workers in the new situation.

Training some skills for union officials in Thai Binh

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Thai Binh - Thai Binh Provincial Federation of Labor has just organized a training course on dialogue skills and collective labor agreement negotiation for union officials at all levels in the province.

300 students in Tuyen Quang trained in trade union skills

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The 2024 trade union training course was organized by the Tuyen Quang Provincial Labor Federation with the participation of more than 300 students.

The workload is large, but the union payroll is very limited

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The National Assembly delegate gave an example in his locality - a key industrial province, with 750,000 union members but only assigned 98 union staff positions.

75% of union funds to take care of workers at the grassroots level

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The vast majority of the DQBH agrees with the 2% union fee - the current budget is 75% left for the grassroots union to take care of the workers.

Presenting 2 Union Shelters to help union members settle down and find work

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Hau Giang - The Trade Union Shelter is a motivation to help union members and workers continue to strive and complete their work well.

Proposal to increase allowances for grassroots union officials

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According to National Assembly delegates, the current allowance level for grassroots trade union officials is very low, causing difficulties in operations and attracting human resources to participate.

The 2% union dues have worked for over 60 years

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The National Assembly deputies proposed maintaining the 2% union budget, stating that this funding source has been effective for over 60 years in taking care of workers' lives.