Not retreating in the face of difficulties
Along with the "Dynamic, Creative, Responsible Female Union Members" Award Ceremony, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor summarizes and rewards the emulation movement "Good at public work, Good at home work" for the period 2020-2025. Among the 10 recipients of the award are 5 outstanding workers, working directly in various fields and 5 leaders, managers, and civil servants with initiatives, topics, and solutions with great influence.
Among the 5 female workers, some are engineers working in technical environments, some are direct production workers.
In addition, there are 3 female leaders and managers of the business sector; 1 civil servant is a scientist and 1 female union worker with many initiatives, topics and solutions of great influence, bringing practical value to the agency, unit and community. In just the 10 selected individuals, there were dozens of initiatives and technical solutions with a total value of hundreds of millions to billions of VND per year.
As one of the 10 recipients of this Award, Ms. Nguyen Thi Dung, Deputy Head of Assembly Department, Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd. has an impressive achievement as the owner of many initiatives. Of which, there are initiatives that benefit businesses more than 30 billion VND. Every day at the company, Ms. Dung works with the motto "Improvement is continuous".
Ms. Do Nguyet Anh - Party Committee Secretary, Chairwoman of the Board of Members of the Northern Power Corporation is a typical example. In the face of the complicated developments of the COVID-19 epidemic, Ms. Anh has directed proactiveness and flexibility in business, customer service, construction investment, and technical management to both meet the requirements of disease prevention and control compliance and not affect the production and business of the corporation. She also directed the implementation of a program to support reducing electricity prices and reducing electricity bills for customers due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in a timely manner.
Ms. Anh also resolutely directed the development and implementation of the Digital Transformation Project in the Northern Power Corporation. In particular, all the contents and investment items in information technology of the corporation are implemented with the goal of meeting the management and operation needs of the corporation, completing the production and business targets assigned by EVN and making the corporation a leading unit in digital transformation in EVN...
The strength of the Trade Union organization is nurtured by female union members
Female union members and workers are an important part of the national labor force and are increasingly contributing significantly to the socio-economic development of the country.
As of July 31, 2025, there were a total of 62,059 grassroots unions with 8,642,169 union members, of which women accounted for nearly 56%. The quality of female workers has had many clear changes. Many women have been trusted and promoted to hold key positions and positions in agencies and units. The female worker directly involved in production has many initiatives and innovations, making important contributions to the growth of each unit and enterprise. In the family, female employees play an important role in organizing family life, building a prosperous, progressive, happy, and civilized family.
According to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Khang - Member of the Party Central Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Party Committee, Central Trade Unions, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Party Secretary, President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, 2025 is the first year the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor organizes the award ceremony for "Dynamic, Creative, Responsible Female Union Members".
The award is selected and awarded every 5 years on the occasion of Vietnamese Women's Day October 20, to honor and encourage a team of dynamic, creative, responsible female union members who are responsible, excellently completing assigned tasks, contributing to the development of agencies, units, enterprises and building happy families.
The criteria for selecting and awarding the award are: Female union members are always active, proactive, dare to think, dare to do to find new ways of doing things, new products and services, high efficiency and uniqueness in work and production; are aware of preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values of the nation and Vietnamese women; have the will and determination to rise up to develop in all aspects, ensure harmony between family work and agency work, unit, and raise children to be good, good at studying, and successful.
In this first round, through 3 rounds of selection, from the grassroots trade union, provincial and municipal labor federations, central industry unions and general corporation unions, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has selected the 10 most outstanding and outstanding individuals to award the first "Enthusiastic, Creative, Responsible Female Union Member" Award in 2025...
On this occasion, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor also organized a preliminary review and rewarded outstanding collectives and individuals in the emulation movement "Good at public work, Good at home work" for the period 2020 - 2025. The 20 collectives and 60 individuals honored are all typical examples in the movement, shining examples of the will to rise up, creativity, and sense of responsibility in work and in building a happy family.
The results that the collectives and individuals have achieved also show that the emulation movement "Good at public work, good at housework" was launched by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor in 1989, and has now gone through 36 years, becoming one of the key emulation movements with widespread influence, while affirming the accompanying role of the Vietnam Trade Union in realizing the policy of gender equality and promoting women's progress.
Trade unions at all levels have created and concretized movements suitable to the characteristics of each industry and field: "Good at school work, good at housework" in the education sector; "Good at banking, good at housework" in the banking industry; "Good mothers and good children studying" in the Coal - Mineral industry; or the movement "Women in the aviation industry are knowledgeable and creative in the new era" in the aviation sector... Those rich and approachable ways of doing things have affirmed the movement not only stopping at emulation slogans, but have truly become a self-reliance and aspiration of millions of Vietnamese women, to shine in both the family and society aspects...
More than ever, female union members have contributed to building the strength of the Trade Union organization through the implementation, response, and participation in movements and activities of the Trade Union organization. In particular, the strength and role of the organization is further affirmed, when the women are always dedicated to union members, workers, and colleagues, such as Ms. Nguyen Thi Dung, Deputy Head of the Assembly Department, Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd., to propose and recommend to the leaders of the Party and State, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to continue to pay more attention to the material and spiritual life of workers in industrial parks and export processing zones, especially the issue of housing and nurseries for workers' children, so that workers can "residently settle down", continue to have many initiatives and creativity recognized and replicated, contributing to the development of businesses and the country.
