anyone wants to look up information
During his working session with a grassroots trade union in Thach That Industrial Park, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thang - Member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, Deputy Head of the Trade Union Work Committee, in charge of the Trade Union of industrial parks shared information that trade union officials really want to find in Lao Dong Newspaper the regulations, policies and guiding documents for implementation, especially for new policies.
What Mr. Thang shared came from the trust of the union staff in Lao Dong Newspaper. For the past 96 years, the newspaper has always stood side by side with the Trade Union organization to play a role in protecting the legitimate and legal rights of union members and workers. Up to now, this journey is still continuing, becoming more and more profound and effective.
As a person who has worked directly with grassroots and executive union officials for many years, and is present in the group of union officials of Hanoi's industrial and export processing zones, Mr. Thang analyzed that, first of all, for grassroots union officials, what they need is specific content that can be applied directly to their daily work. For example, newspapers should provide document templates, instructions on organizing labor conferences, dialogues at the workplace, collective bargaining, skills in propagating policies on Social Insurance, Health Insurance, union fees, etc.
In addition, changes in labor policies, wages, occupational safety and hygiene, and new legal regulations also need to be updated quickly, accurately, and easily understood. Currently, many union officials said that they have difficulty approaching and explaining the new policy to union members due to the lack of clear and easy-to-understand support tools. This is where Lao Dong Newspaper can promote its role more effectively.
In addition to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thang's sharing, many grassroots union officials said they wanted to learn from many experiences in union activities through articles on good practices of the units.
Mr. Phan Thanh Hai - Chairman of the Trade Union of Meiko Vietnam Co., Ltd. - said that the union officials who are part-time at the enterprise like him always explore, learn and want to share the way of organizing activities for workers as well as the skills to protect the legitimate rights and interests of union members and workers.
"Co-workers like us do not have the conditions to go to the site to learn how to do well and effectively from other units. But we can learn from them from articles introducing those methods in Lao Dong Newspaper, to apply points that are suitable for the reality of our business" - Mr. Hai said.
Workers want to get closer to their lives
Nguyen Huu Binh, has only worked for a company in Thang Long Industrial Park for 1 year. At a young age, working as a worker for the first time, and away from home, Binh's hobby is outside of work, living in a TikTok surfing room. Binh honestly said that he rarely reads electronic newspapers but only reads news from social networks and it is difficult to determine whether it is official news or just a like story or a view story.
Until a friend in the next room asked about the increase in the regional minimum wage, Binh read the newspapers about this content. Since then, Binh has spent more time reading newspapers. According to Binh, Lao Dong Newspaper often has articles about workers' lives. These are close and practical information about the lives, jobs, income and rights of workers like Binh...
For workers who take the opportunity to read Lao Dong Newspaper at the Workers' Culture Activity Point, they hope that in addition to articles reflecting labor disputes and violated rights, there will be specialized sections to guide how to file complaints, how to consult lawyers with specific instructions such as what to do when they are illegally fired; procedures to enjoy maternity benefits, illness... These contents help workers feel that the newspaper is accompanying and protecting them.
