With the motto “All union members and workers have Tet”, the Tet care activities of the Trade Unions at all levels have been implemented in a diverse and flexible manner. During the Lunar New Year alone, over 8.6 million union members and workers have benefited from the care activities of the Trade Union organization.
The Union bus carries the wish of reunion
Joining the bustling crowd returning to their hometowns to celebrate Tet at Tan Son Nhat airport on the last days of December, Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh, 45 years old, from Hai Duong, a worker at Baria Serece Joint Stock Company, based in Ba Ria - Vung Tau shared, "When I heard the company's Union department announce that I would be supported with Vietnam Airlines tickets to return home to celebrate Tet, I was so happy I wanted to cry. Immediately, I called my parents to tell them the good news because for many years due to difficult economic conditions, I have not had the opportunity to return home to visit my parents."
Sharing the joy of celebrating Tet with his family after 6 years away from home, Mr. Nguyen Van Manh, from Thanh Hoa, a worker at MJ Apparel Co., Ltd. in Dong Nai province, also said that returning to his parents makes Tet feel so close. This is also the happiest year when he was chosen as one of the people supported with free air tickets to return home.
To share with workers in difficulty, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has coordinated with Vietnam Airlines to organize special flights, called "Union Flight - Spring 2025" to bring 450 workers back to their hometowns to celebrate Tet. This is a program to bring workers far from home back to reunite with their families, fully enjoying the happiness of the traditional Tet holiday At Ty 2025. This is an annual activity implemented by Vietnam Airlines with the hope that after a year of hard work, everyone has the opportunity to return to their families, share the joy of reunion, and enjoy the sacred moments of the traditional Tet holiday.
Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha, Head of the Policy - Law and Labor Relations Department of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, said that about 45,000 people have been connected by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor with transportation units such as airlines, trains, and cars to bring people home to celebrate Tet. Notably, in these special circumstances, there are people who have not returned home to celebrate Tet with their families for more than 22 years. "This is a very meaningful activity, creating more motivation for workers to work, contributing to the development of businesses in particular and society in general," Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha shared.
Flexible forms of Tet care for workers
According to the quick report of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor on the results of taking care of union members and workers on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2025, with the motto "All union members and workers have Tet", the Tet care activities of the Trade Unions at all levels have been deployed in a diverse, flexible and focused manner at the grassroots level, ensuring convenience for union members to participate, suitable to the conditions and reality of the locality and unit.
The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor continues to organize the online program "Trade Union Tet Market 2025" to give Tet shopping vouchers to union members and workers nationwide via the website: chotet.Congdoan.vn. The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor also gave away 200,000 shopping vouchers to union members and workers worth VND 500,000/voucher. The program "Trade Union Tet Market 2025" organized by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor in Hai Phong city, with a scale of over 200 booths with nearly 200 enterprises, attracted over 40,000 union members and workers to participate. Thereby, contributing to improving the material life of union members and workers on Tet holiday. Along with that is the activity of supporting means of transport for union members and workers to return to their hometowns to celebrate Tet and return to work on the occasion of the Lunar New Year At Ty 2025. In addition, the Trade Union at all levels also actively implemented support for buying train, bus and plane tickets for union members and workers who are still in difficulty to return to their hometowns to celebrate Tet. Therefore, more than 45,500 union members, workers and their relatives were able to return to their hometowns to celebrate Tet on buses, trains and planes, with a total amount of over 40 billion VND.
At the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor level, the Trade Union also organized "Trade Union Flight - Spring 2025" with 2 flights, bringing 450 union members and workers working in the southern provinces and cities back to their hometowns to celebrate Tet; organized "Trade Union Train - Spring 2025". In addition, activities to care for the Lunar New Year At Ty 2025 continued to be organized at 4 levels of the Trade Union, focusing on the grassroots level. The subjects of care and priority are union members and workers in especially difficult circumstances, those who have suffered work accidents, occupational diseases, serious illnesses, natural disasters, storms and floods; union members and workers who lack or lose their jobs; union members and workers who are policy families, are ethnic minorities or have not had the opportunity to return to their hometowns to reunite with their families during Tet for many years; union members and workers who do not return to their hometowns to celebrate Tet to work, work, and produce.
According to incomplete reports from localities and units during the 2025 Lunar New Year, over 8.6 million union members and workers have benefited from the care activities of the Trade Union organization, with a total budget of over VND 4,750.5 billion. Of which, the Trade Union's financial resources are VND 3,054.5 billion; calling for social support to support the funding source to care for union members and workers is VND 1,696 billion, accounting for 35.7%.
Source: https://daidoanket.vn/tet-sum-vay-cua-nguoi-lao-dong-10298993.html
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