Accompanying employees to build businesses
Regarding the relationship with the Trade Union, Mr. Okutani Masahiro - General Director of Yamaha Motor Vietnam Co., Ltd. - said that the company's management always promotes the connection between the Trade Union to create conditions in terms of time and support additional funding for organizing internal emulation movements; organize many cultural, artistic and sports activities to help employees have a high working spirit, helping to increase labor productivity...
Currently, there are many enterprises with such a viewpoint. Through this, it can be seen that enterprises value the role of the Trade Union and to gain that respect, the Trade Union organization, especially the grassroots Trade Union, has had effective activities, contributing significantly to the process of overcoming difficulties and developing the enterprise.
One of the effective activities of the Trade Union that is highly appreciated by enterprises is organizing emulation movements that are suitable for reality, bringing practical results to both benefit enterprises and help workers increase their income. In 2024, out of a total of 801 initiatives sent to the Hanoi City Labor Federation for commendation, 736 initiatives were calculated to have monetary benefits with a profit of more than 563 billion VND. Many initiatives of workers that have been applied not only bring high economic efficiency, benefiting enterprises with tens and hundreds of billions of VND each year, but many initiatives also have positive implications for social security, creating jobs for thousands of workers in the capital.
As one of the people with many technical innovation initiatives that benefit the business, Mr. Ta Dinh Nhat - who has worked for more than 10 years at Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd., has always actively participated in emulation movements launched and implemented by the Union. Most recently, he had an initiative to improve the circuit board pressing process, saving circuit board pressing materials, helping the business save nearly 1 billion VND per month. Talking about his initiative, Mr. Nhat said that he had come up with an improvement to reduce costs, first of all, each circuit board had to use 2 sheets of material for pressing, then discarded, which was very expensive.
During his work, Mr. Nhat realized this, so he researched and came up with the initiative to press 3 layers of goods but only used 2 sheets of material, saving nearly 1 billion VND for the company in 1 month. The factor that motivated Mr. Nhat and other employees in the company to actively promote initiatives was the encouragement and facilitation of the Trade Union. In addition, each of their initiatives was recognized with certificates of merit and rewards from the company, so each employee had the spirit of daring to think and daring to do.
Understanding the needs of the business, each emulation movement launched by the Union is suitable for reality, thereby creating a creative environment for employees. Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyen - an excellent employee of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Vietnam Co., Ltd. is one of many employees who are motivated by that. With an intermediate level of expertise but with a strong creative spirit, Ms. Nguyen always affirms her pioneering role in the improvement movement at the company.
One of her successes is improving the U-Wavepak software to measure molds and jigs and automatically save data instead of measuring molds and jigs depending on calipers and manual recording, leading to the risk of errors and delays in quality assessment.
Thanks to this initiative, measurements are performed automatically and more accurately, and the system also warns if the data is out of standard, helping to increase accuracy and processing speed. The improvements of Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyen bring great benefits to Sumitomo Heavy Industries not only financially but also in terms of process efficiency and production quality...
According to the Chairman of the Trade Union of Meiko Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd. - Phan Thanh Hai, realizing that employees are the most valuable assets of the enterprise and that the creativity and dedication of employees are the driving force for the sustainable development of the enterprise, for many years the company's trade union executive board has coordinated with specialized departments and divisions to widely launch emulation movements throughout the company. From the emulation movements, employees in the company have had many useful creative initiatives in labor and production, bringing great benefits to the Company and contributing to the expansion of the movement.
After receiving and synthesizing the initiatives of the employees, the company's Scientific Council evaluates the value of benefits, scientific and novel nature, practical application, image and brand building, safety, etc. of each initiative. From there, select the winning initiatives and propose to the company's leadership to recognize and reward these initiatives. In addition to timely encouragement and rewards, every year, the company also organizes vocational competitions for workers in the production departments, so that workers have the opportunity to experience and improve their skills. The company always creates conditions in terms of time, equipment, and tools for implementation.
The union has coordinated with employers to organize innovation competitions, strong factory competitions, and skill training in production teams and the entire company. Mr. Hai emphasized that in order for employees to truly compete in the innovation and creativity movement, it is necessary not only to create conditions and timely rewards but also to propagate and educate them so that they see their responsibility towards the enterprise, and be ready to share when the enterprise encounters difficulties...
Building harmonious, stable and progressive labor relations
Dialogue, negotiation and signing of collective labor agreements between employers and employees play an important role in minimizing and resolving conflicts and disagreements between the parties; limiting labor disputes is also a solution to effectively protect the rights and interests of employees, contributing to building harmonious, stable and progressive labor relations. Aware of that, trade unions at all levels always focus on implementing dialogue and collective bargaining, achieving positive results in many aspects. Dialogue work is widely deployed at all levels, solving many major and practical issues, affecting a large number of union members, employees and trade union organizations.
In the program "Improving the effectiveness of dialogue and collective bargaining in the period of 2023 - 2028" of the Executive Committee of the General Confederation of Labor, the annual target, notably, is that 100% of grassroots trade unions in state-owned enterprises and at least 85% of grassroots trade unions in non-state-owned enterprises and units participate with employers in promulgating and implementing grassroots democracy regulations; 100% of grassroots trade unions in state-owned enterprises and at least 85% of grassroots trade unions in non-state-owned enterprises and units coordinate with employers in organizing labor conferences and dialogues at the workplace.
When the Trade Union accompanies the enterprise, the rights and interests of the parties in the labor relationship are guaranteed and enhanced. This is very important to improve labor productivity. The Trade Union will focus on promoting the role of representative organizations, especially the role of participating in socio-economic management, acting as a bridge to carry out policy dialogue activities, and sharing experiences on increasing labor productivity. Coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to research and propose the development of programs to support and develop vocational skills and life skills for workers. Coordinate, exchange, and dialogue with the business community, investors, workers, researchers and propose appropriate solutions to increase labor productivity.
Reality shows that finding bottlenecks, difficulties, and obstacles in improving labor productivity, at the same time providing good models, good practices, and proposing, recommending, and providing specific solutions are the things that the Vietnam Trade Union has been, is, and will be doing to accompany businesses. This accompanying with businesses not only ensures jobs and income for workers, but also makes an important contribution to socio-economic development.
Patriotic emulation movements launched by the Trade Union, focusing on the emulation movement "Good workers, Creative workers" have attracted a large number of union members and workers to participate, creating a vibrant and widespread revolutionary action movement with millions of initiatives implemented in recent times. In particular, the program "1 million initiatives - efforts to overcome difficulties, creativity, determination to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic" in the period of 2022 - 2023 has been successful beyond expectations, reaching 200% of the set target with more than 2 million participating initiatives, demonstrating the creativity and intelligence of workers to promptly adapt to the complicated epidemic context, contributing to increasing labor productivity, restoring and developing production and business activities of enterprises.
