The work of developing union members and establishing new grassroots trade unions has always been a difficult task in Trade Union activities. Currently, the difficulty of this task is even greater due to many reasons such as labor migration; increasing the model of freelance and seasonal labor; difficult labor recruitment; reducing the number of units and labor due to streamlining the apparatus...
Mr. Phung Thai Quang - Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation (LĐLĐ) - said that the work of developing union members and establishing new grassroots trade unions has not achieved good results due to the impact of a number of factors such as: arranging the apparatus leading to thin personnel at commune and ward trade unions; there is a situation of slow adaptation, confusion in deploying work, not fully grasping the situation at the grassroots level. In addition, in some cases, the assignment and deployment of work is not reasonable, not key...
Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet - Vice Chairwoman of Dong Nai City Labor Federation also emphasized the labor migration in the locality. In recent times, on average annually, Dong Nai is losing about 30,000 workers...
This also greatly affects the work of developing union members in Dong Nai. In addition, some businesses are also delaying the establishment of grassroots trade unions, although they have been mobilized many times," Ms. Tuyet said.
At the conference on union member development and establishment of grassroots trade unions, adjusting targets for 2026 held on July 8 in the Southern region, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hung - Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor - said that some localities in the Southern region still consider union member development and establishment of grassroots trade unions as normal work, not really paying attention, considering it a key task. Therefore, it is proposed that localities need to increase attention and efforts to implement. In which, it is necessary to clearly define the position and focus in the work to try to complete the task of union member development in the last 6 months of the year.
Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Nguyen Xuan Hung also suggested directions for implementing tasks for localities in the coming time, including: detailed implementation according to new targets, associated with KPI assessment; thoroughly reviewing data, ensuring accuracy to determine areas with room, advantages and priority order for implementation; moving towards stabilizing the trade union apparatus of communes and wards; organizing regular meetings to review, inspect and overcome shortcomings in the implementation process...
