Throughout the formation and development of the Trade Union organization, caring for union members and workers is the top priority. The Trade Union organization has done this task well. However, in the new situation, care work needs to be elevated, adding new contents and requirements.
In his speech, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized: "There is no high labor productivity if workers are not trained, cared for, protected and inspired with the desire to contribute". Care is no longer just a simple welfare activity, but has gone beyond short-term support thinking, becoming a condition for sustainable development.
A noteworthy point is that in the speech, "care" is not only associated with material life, but also with the development of the workers themselves. This is a very important expansion, requiring in the coming time, the Trade Union to strongly promote the right to lifelong education of workers.
Another profound content in the speech is the view: Caring for workers is creating conditions for workers to grow up, progress and have a better future. Caring is not just giving, but creating conditions, giving opportunities, and paving the way for the future.
The speech also reiterated the nature of the Trade Union organization: "Trade unions are established to represent, care for, and protect workers". The three "representative - caring - protecting" parts are inseparable. To care for well, it is necessary to represent substance. To protect effectively, it is necessary to understand the needs of workers correctly. To represent with prestige, it is necessary to create specific benefits, visible, measurable and perceived.
When talking about the Digital Trade Union, the General Secretary and President emphasized that the Trade Union must "care for the right people, the right work, at the right time". This is a very specific requirement for the management of the Trade Union organization in the digital age.
In particular, the General Secretary and President emphasized taking care of the lives of workers because they are also surrounded by families, residential areas, villages, streets, children, parents, and relatives. This is a comprehensive view of workers: They are not individual entities, but also associated with social and family relationships.
The speech of General Secretary and President To Lam with 10 mentions of the phrase "care" is also 10 slices of a major requirement: Trade unions need to better perform their core functions, turn care work into representative capacity, into protection mechanisms, into action programs and into specific results.
This is also the expectation of the Party, the State and each union member and worker for the Trade Union organization.
