Over 90% of employees join trade unions
Ms. Nguyen Huynh Tu Thanh, Vice President of the Trade Union of Phuong Dong Food Processing Export Company Limited (Can Tho City) said that about 98% of the company's employees participate in the Trade Union, over 60% of whom are women.
According to Ms. Thanh, to achieve this result, in addition to advocacy and propaganda work, the company's Trade Union also has regular activities to care for female workers such as organizing gift giving on occasions such as March 8 and October 20, and providing break rooms for workers.
In particular, when organizing periodic health check-ups for workers, female workers will receive additional gynecological examinations.
“Gynecological examination is not mandatory, but the company always encourages workers to participate to ensure their own health. Accordingly, if female workers are reluctant or busy to participate on the main examination day at the company, the company will create conditions to arrange a fixed day other than the clinic for workers to come for examination,” Ms. Thanh informed.
With over 2/3 of the workers being female, Ms. Nguyen Nhu Thuy, Chairwoman of the Trade Union of Dai Nam Food Processing Company Limited (Can Tho City) said that to attract any force to participate in the Trade Union organization, dissemination and propaganda work is carried out from the time of interview.
During the working process, in addition to the prescribed regimes, on holidays such as March 8 and October 20, the company also organizes activities such as giving flowers, cakes, and parties to encourage the spirit of female workers... Above all, the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the women are listened to by the Trade Union and promptly proposed to the Company's Board of Directors.
More benefits
In the first 9 months of the year, the Can Tho Industrial and Export Processing Zones (IP&CX) Trade Union has increased by 3,527/3,200 union members, reaching and exceeding 110.2% of the assigned target. Of which, the number of female union members increased by 2,192 people.
Ms. Le Thanh Thuy, Chairwoman of the Trade Union of Can Tho Industrial Parks and Export Processing Zones, informed that recently, some grassroots trade unions have operated well, bringing practical benefits, attracting employees to join the trade union organization. Therefore, the regional trade union has been promoting the guidance of grassroots trade unions to dialogue, negotiate, and sign collective labor agreements with employers with favorable terms so that union members and employees can increasingly enjoy more benefits.
The local trade union also always cares about the special benefits for women to ensure their health and peace of mind at work, such as committing to ensuring jobs for female workers returning to work after maternity leave, providing obstetrics and gynecology examinations, and having a milk storage room for female workers who are raising young children at the enterprise, etc.
Speaking with Lao Dong, a representative of the Can Tho City Labor Federation said that the city is interested in developing union members and has identified them as one of the key tasks in 2024. Since the beginning of the year, the city's trade unions at all levels have developed 5,622 union members, established 5 unions, bringing the total number of current union members to 88,590 unions and 1,204 grassroots unions.
To strive to fulfill the assigned targets, in the last 3 months of the year, the city's trade unions at all levels will launch an extraordinary emulation movement in the work of developing union members, establishing grassroots trade unions; and introducing outstanding union members to the Party. Accordingly, attention will be paid to promoting forms of propaganda and mobilization in parallel with improving the quality of grassroots trade union activities to promptly care for, represent and attract workers to participate in the trade union organization.
