Luggage back to the city is still food from the countryside
The family of Mr. Vu Quang Manh and Ms. Tran Thi Minh Nguyet rented a room in Kim Chung area (Hanoi). Mr. Manh has been a worker for more than 10 years. Ms. Nguyet transferred jobs to many companies, and is now working for Mitsui Vietnam Co., Ltd. for more than 1 year.
Having worked in Hanoi for quite a long time, now their eldest child is in 7th grade, the second child is in 3rd grade. The tuition fees for their children and rent, electricity and water bills account for a significant amount of the couple's nearly 20 million VND/month income. This Tet, the whole family will take a Trade Union bus back to their hometown in Nghe An, so they can also save some money.
Returning to the city, to save some living expenses, Mr. Manh and Ms. Nguyet brought quite a lot of food from their hometown. Including rice, banh chung, pork (packed in styrofoam boxes), and green vegetables.
Ms. Nguyet said that green vegetables are also clean vegetables grown by her mother in her garden, before her husband and children set off for the city, returning to the pace of work, her mother went to the garden to cut vegetables, put them in sacks, and tied them carefully to ensure the vegetables are still fresh.
Arriving at the boarding house at 3 pm, Mr. Manh and Ms. Nguyet took the opportunity to clean the house, put away food and foodstuffs, and then went to meet fellow Nghe An compatriots who are also workers in Hanoi. Hometown dishes were prepared by the brothers and sisters together.
The story around the first meal of the year revolves around celebrating Tet at home, Tet prices, Tet bonuses and preparing for a new working year. The common joy is the concern of businesses and trade union organizations.
It can be clearly seen that one of the factors for workers to return to the city to work on time is the care of businesses and trade union organizations. For example, at Nissei Electric Hanoi Co., Ltd., it does not organize buses to take workers home for Tet but supports a part of travel expenses for union members and workers this time.
Mr. Do Danh Giap - Chairman of the company's Trade Union - said that workers are supported with travel expenses according to the length of the distance calculated in kilometers from home to the city. The amount of support ranges from 100,000 VND - 400,000 VND. For example, under 100km will be supported with 100,000 VND, 100km - 150km will be supported with 150,000 VND... Adding each 50km is 50,000 VND, up to a maximum of 400,000 VND. In general, basically everyone is supported with at least 100,000 VND.
At Meiko Vietnam Electronics Co., Ltd., there are over 6,300 officials, union members, and employees. Although the Lunar New Year takes place right at the time when the company is putting in all its effort to complete orders, the Trade Union has coordinated with the Board of Directors to organize many activities to care for union members and employees. One of them is organizing bus trips to take union members and employees home for Tet.
After the Tet holiday, from February 20th, some positions in the departments preparing for the production line came to work at the Company to ensure the operation of the entire company from February 23rd. According to Mr. Phan Thanh Hai - Chairman of the Company's Trade Union, with a number of 200 - 300 union members and employees of the company registering to take buses back to the city after the Tet holiday, the company has arranged 6 buses to pick them up. Pick-up points suitable for the hometowns of union members and employees in Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Son La, Tuyen Quang provinces...
This is one of the ways to support union members and workers to return to work on time as regulated as well as reduce the burden of spending on travel for workers. The company has bonuses and lucky money on the first working day of the new year...
Dream of buying social housing
Talking to reporters, many worker families expressed their desire to buy social housing. The family of Mr. Nguyen Khac Trong and Ms. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh, both workers at Nissei Electric Hanoi Co., Ltd., are living in a 1-story rented house. The cost of rent, electricity and water for the family including the couple and 3 young children is nearly 2.4 million VND. Mr. Trong has worked in Hanoi for more than 12 years. Previously, after graduating from mechanical engineering at the University of Industry, according to recruitment information, Mr. Trong's predestined relationship with the company has lasted until now.
Thanks to a good working environment, his income is about 15 - 16 million VND/month. Husband and wife both save and save to both raise children and save a sum to buy a social housing in the future. As workers, having lived in a rented house of only 18m2, husband and wife hope to continue to be supported, connected, and guided by the trade union and company to buy a social housing. Only then will life be stable and they can feel secure in their work.
Returning to the story of Mr. Vu Quang Manh and Ms. Tran Thi Minh Nguyet. They also want to buy a social housing. Mr. Manh is in the process of completing procedures but encountered some difficulties. "My wife and I's dream is to complete the procedures to buy a social housing. Only then will the family be stable" - Mr. Manh shared.
Tet, workers return to their hometowns to celebrate Tet, reuniting with their parents and siblings. But the biggest dream of many people now is to buy social housing, not to live in cramped rented rooms. Because in their own house, their lives will be stable, their children will have their own study corners, and they will also feel secure in working and contributing to businesses.
