Encourage workers to learn continuously
Mr. Pham Hong Thang - Senior Department Head, Assembly Shell Department, HD Hyundai Vietnam Co., Ltd. (HVS) started his career as a high school graduate. After a period of effort and encouragement from the company and union, Mr. Thang has risen to become a chief engineer.
“If there were no encouragement to improve my skills, if I were not sent abroad for training by businesses, if I had access to foreign languages and soft skills, my skills would not have met the job requirements and I would have remained a low-level worker,” Thang shared.
According to Mr. Le Van Toan - Chairman of HVS Company's Trade Union, with 3,000 workers working in the shipbuilding sector, improving the qualifications and skills of workers has always been a priority for the union and the company in its development strategy over the years.
In which, the spirit of self-training, self-learning and competition among individuals, groups and teams is encouraged. The company and the union launch and award prizes periodically monthly and quarterly through competitions... Individuals with great efforts, creativity and excellence in work are honored and widely praised through the channels of HVS newsletter and Union newsletter.
In 2024, the technical innovation emulation movement jointly launched by the Trade Union received 3,443 innovations, generating a profit of 30.5 billion VND.
Every year, the Trade Union spends more than 500 million VND to coordinate the organization of training programs to improve workers' skills... To meet the requirements of current industrialization and modernization, HVS also encourages workers to apply and master new technologies...
10,560 workers have their skills recognized
According to a survey, in Khanh Hoa, there are currently 3 localities with a large concentration of workers: Nha Trang city, Ninh Hoa town and Cam Lam district.
Over 15 years of implementing Resolution 20-NQ/TW on "Continuing to build the Vietnamese working class in the period of promoting industrialization and modernization of the country", Khanh Hoa Provincial Trade Unions at all levels have coordinated to organize more than 800 study conferences and propaganda campaigns with more than 76,000 cadres, union members and workers participating in training, education and improving the political and legal level, class awareness and national spirit of the working class.
Unions at all levels actively encourage union members and workers to study to improve their qualifications, professional skills, industrial style, and labor discipline, creating positive changes. There have been some good models and effective methods such as: Mobilizing enterprises to include the content of studying to improve the qualifications and professional skills of workers in the Collective Labor Agreement; building a Study Encouragement Fund to support poor workers and children of workers who are studious...
In the past 5 years, nearly 200 units and enterprises in the province have organized skill competitions and upgrading for workers with over 15,000 participants, 10,560 workers have had their skills recognized and upgraded.
Trade Unions at all levels coordinated with universities, colleges, and vocational schools throughout the province to organize 480 classes with more than 72,000 students in their final year at universities, colleges, and vocational schools throughout the province to propagate labor laws and the role of trade unions...
The Provincial Federation of Labor has inaugurated two Union institutions to serve union members and workers; is implementing investment procedures for a social housing project for workers to participate in solving urgent needs, gradually improving the quality of life of workers.
According to the leader of Khanh Hoa Provincial Federation of Labor, promoting the construction of cultural institutions to serve workers in industrial parks and industrial clusters is one of the orientations that need to continue to be implemented to meet the modernization of the current working class.
The Provincial Federation of Labor also recommended that in reality, the professional qualifications and skills of workers are still low, and it is necessary to support human resources to improve the profession of workers, and to cooperate with vocational training schools so that workers have the conditions to study, both ensuring employment at the unit and meeting the requirements of participating in training, improving educational qualifications, professional skills, and improving labor productivity...
