After listening to the directing speech of General Secretary and President To Lam at the 14th Congress of the Vietnam Trade Union, term 2026 - 2031, Mr. Vo Khac Thai - Standing Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation - said that the Ho Chi Minh City Trade Union organization will closely follow the direction of General Secretary and President To Lam to soon bring trade union activities closer to reality and closer to workers.
Mr. Vo Khac Thai said that the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation is managing 23,070 grassroots trade unions (CĐCS) with nearly 2.4 million union members, accounting for about 1/4 of the number of CĐCS and union members nationwide. This very large scale is both an advantage and a significant pressure in management, care, representation and protection of workers.
Current practice shows that the situation of workers and laborers still has many issues that need to be addressed, labor relations in some places still have potential risks of disputes arising, the lives of a part of workers are still difficult, and the needs for housing, jobs, social security, and cultural institutions serving workers are increasing.
Mr. Vo Khac Thai emphasized that in the coming time, the Ho Chi Minh City Trade Union organization will closely follow the directions and suggestions of General Secretary and President To Lam on orientations for trade union activities; Resolution of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Congress, Resolution of the XIV Vietnam Trade Union Congress, to deploy into trade union activities with the motto that trade unions must be close to workers, listen to workers, and act for workers to have prestige and a substantive role.
The Ho Chi Minh City Trade Union organization will coordinate with city authorities at all levels, businesses, and training institutions to improve professional qualifications, digital skills, and adaptive skills for workers so that each worker will have the opportunity to study for life.
Ho Chi Minh City Trade Union will continue to improve the effectiveness of representation, dialogue and collective bargaining to better protect the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of workers, improve collective resolution capacity, dialogue at the workplace, prevent disputes from early on, from the grassroots level so that workers' reflections must be listened to before becoming grievances, so that each small conflict must be resolved before accumulating into hot spots as directed by General Secretary and President To Lam.
The Ho Chi Minh City Trade Union will innovate care work in a comprehensive and sustainable direction, taking the actual needs of union members and workers as the center, taking the trust of union members, the satisfaction of workers, and the level of life improvement at the grassroots level as a measure of the success of the trade union organization.
At the same time, resources will be invested, training, and fostering to improve the quality of trade union officials, especially in grassroots trade unions, and focus on strongly innovating grassroots trade unions, considering grassroots levels as the decisive area for the vitality of the trade union organization.
The Ho Chi Minh City Trade Union Organization will strive to train a team of trade union officials that are more professional in labor law to have the capacity to solve collective issues, social security, digital media, data, organizational management and crisis handling. At the same time, each trade union official must have a heart for workers, be brave in the face of difficulties, have skills to work with businesses, have persuasive ability and prestige among workers as directed and suggested by General Secretary and President To Lam".
