Workers celebrate Tet at boarding house
With only one week left until the Lunar New Year 2025, the atmosphere of Tet is spreading to every corner of Tam Thang Industrial Park, Tam Ky City, Quang Nam. Seeing her colleagues packing their luggage to return home for Tet, Ms. Le Thi Tram (from Binh Dinh) feels even more homesick.
In 2019, the epidemic broke out, Ms. Tram, who was working as a worker in Binh Duong, moved to Quang Nam to work and married a husband from the same hometown, working at the same Hyosung Quang Nam company.
"With a combined salary of about 15 million VND, after deducting living expenses, food, rent, children's tuition, etc., there is only a small amount left to send back home to support our elderly parents.
Seeing people eagerly returning to their hometowns, I also crave the feeling of returning home, of being reunited with my family after a year of hard work... but due to difficult circumstances, I have to accept spending Tet in a rented house" - Ms. Tram sadly said.
In the same situation, this is the fourth year that the family of Ung Kieu Nghi (39 years old), a worker at a household appliance company in Quang Nam (hometown in Dak Lak) has not celebrated New Year's Eve with his parents.
Due to difficult circumstances, during Tet, Mr. Nghi and his wife sacrificed time with their family, accepting to work far away to have extra income to take care of their two young children.
“This year, I plan to return home early from the 25th of December to visit my elderly parents and pay respects to my ancestors. On the 28th, I will return to Quang Nam and work with my wife through Tet,” Nghi shared.
So that everyone can have Tet
During the Lunar New Year 2025, there were 147 cases of workers in the Industrial Parks of Quang Nam province registered to work during Tet. The Provincial Youth Union and the Trade Unions of the Economic Zones and Industrial Parks of the province selected 45 difficult cases to support 45 Tet gifts, worth 700 thousand VND/gift.
Mr. Phan Xuan Quang - Chairman of the Quang Nam Provincial Trade Union - said that in response to the Tet Sum Vay program launched by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, this year's Tet in Quang Nam, more than 15,000 union members and workers in difficult circumstances, suffering from serious illnesses, and having work-related accidents were supported and cared for by all levels of the Trade Union with a total amount of nearly 6 billion VND.
In addition, the Quang Nam Provincial Trade Union also presented 22 “Union Shelters” to union members and workers in difficult circumstances who do not have housing so that they can settle down. The Industrial Park Trade Union also arranged 4 Union buses to take 190 workers home for Tet, worth about 100 million VND. Many businesses supported train and bus fares for tens of thousands of workers to return home, with an average of 200,000 VND/person.
“In the current difficult economic conditions, receiving the attention of the Company and the Union, workers celebrating Tet far from home like us are very excited and feel that Tet is closer to our families” – Ms. Le Thi Tram shared.
