Developing union members and establishing grassroots unions are the core and key tasks of the union organization. However, since the beginning of 2023, enterprises have encountered difficulties in terms of orders and have been forced to reduce their workforce, which has significantly affected the union member development targets of all levels of unions in the province.
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| The grassroots union of Dona Standard Shoes Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Xuan Loc District) held a ceremony to admit new union members. Photo: L.Mai |
At the 12th Conference of the Provincial Federation of Labor (FFL) Executive Committee, term X, 2018-2023, recently held, many union officials said that since the beginning of the year, the work of establishing grassroots unions and developing union members has encountered many difficulties and the number of union members has also decreased significantly compared to before. If this situation continues, the target of developing union members will be difficult to achieve in 2023.
* Many difficulties
Chairman of the Bien Hoa City Labor Federation Nguyen Duc Thanh said that Bien Hoa is a unit with a large number of grassroots unions with over 410 units. However, most of the enterprises are small, individual, and household businesses, so the number of union members is not large. This year, the Bien Hoa City Labor Federation was assigned the target of developing 5,000 union members, but so far it has only developed about 500 union members, very low compared to the set target.
At the Long Thanh District Labor Federation, up to now, only 5/7 grassroots unions have been established in the district with 25 or more workers and over 2,000 union members. Meanwhile, the target assigned by the Provincial Labor Federation is to develop 4,700 union members. Ms. Le Thi Thanh Nguyet, President of the Long Thanh City Labor Federation, said that with this situation, achieving the assigned union member recruitment target is very difficult. From now until the end of the year, the Long Thanh District Labor Federation will try, but it still depends on the production situation and recruitment of new workers of enterprises.
Chairwoman of the Provincial Federation of Labor NGUYEN THI NHU Y said that developing the organization and members of the Trade Union is one of the key tasks to build an increasingly strong Trade Union organization. Therefore, proactively building a method to approach workers to mobilize and persuade them to join the Trade Union is extremely important. |
Difficulties in developing union members are a common situation that most grassroots trade unions face. Mr. Dang Tuan Tu, Chairman of the Trade Union of Changshin Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Vinh Cuu District) said that although the company has no policy of reducing labor, since the beginning of the year, the company has had over 2,000 employees quit their jobs for various reasons. In addition, the company is also in the process of recovering production so it is not recruiting more workers.
* Strive to complete the target of developing union members
In 2023, the Provincial Federation of Labor set 13 targets to strive to fulfill the tasks of the Trade Union organization and care for and protect the rights of union members and workers. Up to now, 7/13 targets have been achieved and exceeded. Of the 6 targets that have not been achieved, there is the target of developing union members. Meanwhile, developing union members is the foundation and basis for building a strong union organization. At the same time, the union organization selects and introduces outstanding union members to the Party for consideration and recruitment.
Specifically, regarding the target of developing union members, in 2023, the Provincial Federation of Labor set a target of striving to develop 38,000 union members. In the first 6 months of 2023, the Unions at all levels made efforts to establish 46 new grassroots unions, developing more than 27,000 union members. However, due to many reasons, the number of grassroots unions also decreased by 42 units and the number of union members decreased by over 39,000 people. Thus, the actual increase was only 2 grassroots unions but decreased by over 12,000 union members compared to 2022.
The reason for the decrease in union members is that many enterprises have reduced production and labor; some units have had to temporarily suspend operations, leading to a decrease in the number of union members. In addition, due to the lack of production orders, enterprises are not interested in establishing grassroots unions. Not to mention, some grassroots union officials at enterprises often change jobs, quit or change jobs, which affects union activities as well as union member development.
According to the Provincial Federation of Labor, up to now, the total number of trade unions in the province is nearly 2,900 units with more than 687,000 union members/728 workers, the union membership rate is more than 94%. |
In the last 6 months of 2023, the Trade Unions at all levels said that they will strive to complete the set targets. In particular, special attention will be paid to developing union members and establishing grassroots unions in non-state enterprises with 20 or more employees. Along with that, the work of developing union members and establishing grassroots unions will be linked to the construction, consolidation and improvement of the effectiveness of grassroots unions; at the same time, reviewing the establishment and operation of enterprises in all economic sectors in the province to implement plans to develop union members and establish grassroots unions appropriately and effectively. Focus on replicating good practices of units in creating breakthroughs in developing union members in the past term.
According to Chairwoman of Long Khanh City Labor Federation Truong Thi Bich Lien, although the development of union members and establishment of grassroots unions have been difficult in the past, all levels of the city's labor unions must still pursue it to the end because this is an important task of the labor union organization. In the 2015-2023 term alone, 60 new grassroots unions were established in Long Khanh City, developing more than 16,000 union members, an increase of more than 1.5 times compared to the total number of union members at the beginning of the term. Thereby, bringing the total number of union members to nearly 28,000 people.
To achieve and exceed the above target, Long Khanh City Labor Federation has taken measures to propagate and mobilize workers to know the benefits of joining the Union; at the same time, promoting communication work in enterprises so that workers can grasp information about meaningful activities of the Union.
Lan Mai
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