Trade Union Tet Market - 124 booths are ready to serve
Ho Chi Minh City Trade Union levels, businesses, union members, and workers are ready for the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026 directed by the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, held for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City, opening this morning (January 31).
Happy to receive a shopping voucher
On the morning of January 31, the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026 organized by the VGCL officially opened, but from the morning of January 30, the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Culture Palace was bustling with 124 booths selling essential goods for Tet. Many union members and workers who were given shopping vouchers by the VGCL have started shopping.
While choosing cashews, sunflower seeds, and Tet jam, Ms. Kieu Oanh, an employee of the Equipment Management Department, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, with a smile, said she was very happy to receive a voucher from the trade union organization to buy goods at the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026. Ms. Oanh was very impressed when she came to the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026 and had many essential consumer products during Tet with high quality and prices 10% to 20% cheaper than the market.
The items sold are very diverse, rich and mostly high-quality Vietnamese goods, very necessary for Tet days. I like to use Vietnamese goods because they are both cheap and guaranteed quality. I am very happy to receive a shopping voucher worth 500,000 VND from the trade union. If the value of the shopping voucher is higher, getting 1 million VND would be better," Ms. Kieu Oanh said.
Ms. Tran Kieu Oanh, residing in An Lac ward, said that her son, an employee of Hung Vuong Hospital, was given a shopping voucher for the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026, but because he was busy with work, he asked his mother to go shopping. She chose many items such as sausages, cooking oil, soy sauce, MSG, seasoning powder..., all products of Vietnamese businesses to use during Tet days.
Sharing with reporters, Ms. Tran Kieu Oanh said: "The market organization space is very spacious and airy, convenient for people to go shopping because it is near Metro station No. 1, and there is also a bus route to the place. I am very happy that my child went to work and was given a shopping voucher by the Trade Union, although the value is not much, it also helps the family have more products to use during Tet, showing the Trade Union organization's concern for union members and their families.
124 high-quality booths serving union members and workers
It is worth noting that many businesses participating in selling goods at the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026 highly appreciate this program and accompany and support union members and workers. Mr. Dang Hong Phuc - Director of Tapuho Vietnam Co., Ltd. - said that the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026 is a program with profound humanistic meaning, helping union members and workers to buy high-quality goods at reduced prices compared to the market. In addition to selling goods, Tapuho Vietnam Co., Ltd. also gives 200 gifts (each worth 500,000 VND) of high-quality products with German brands to union members and workers.
Ms. Vu The Van - representative of May May Service - Trading Co., Ltd., a business participating in selling goods here - said that the company sells more than 20 items with prices reduced from 10% to 20% compared to the market, in which many products are high-quality Vietnamese goods. However, according to Ms. Van, because the gift voucher value of each person is 500,000 VND and the number of union members and employees who are given gifts is 6,000 people, it is still limited compared to the business's expectations.
If the Organizing Committee can increase the value of gift vouchers to 1 million VND/person and increase the number of recipients, the value of the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026 will be greater and businesses will be more active in accompanying the Trade Union organization to take care of union members and workers," Ms. Van said.
Information from the Ho Chi Minh City Labor Federation said that after the program was announced, 99 businesses and units registered to participate with a total of 154 booths. Through review, 87 units qualified to participate with 124 booths, including 80 Vietnamese businesses. Among these, there are 14 businesses selling high-quality Vietnamese Goods products, many products certified with ISO quality standards (such as Suca Agricultural Products) and famous regional specialties of units such as: Saigon Co.op Food Co., Ltd., Satra Food, Miliket, Kinh Do, Binh Tay, Omely, Elmic, Unilever, Suca Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. (Dak Lak), Tri Khoi Agricultural Products Company, Vissan...
The products sold are very diverse, including: ST25 rice, Japonica; Tet jams, tea, coffee, fruit juices, packaged foods (Saigon Co.op), spices, agricultural products that are regional specialties throughout the country, cashew nuts, consumer goods, cosmetics and essential items for life. In particular, the products sold here are all discounted from 10% to 30% compared to the market. In addition, there are also legal advice and social insurance booths for workers.
Workers get closer to Vietnamese goods
Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha - Member of the Presidium of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, Deputy Head of the Labor Relations Department of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour - said that on the occasion of the Lunar New Year At Ty 2025, with the aim of organizing rich, practical, and innovative care activities of the Trade Union organization, contributing to bringing a warm and fulfilling Tet to trade union members, workers and families during Tet and Spring, bringing goods and products (goods) of quality consumption of domestic enterprises and units (enterprises) to a large number of trade union members and workers, promoting the application of information technology and digital transformation in trade union activities in general, and activities of caring for trade union members and workers in particular, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour has coordinated with partners to organize the "Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2025" online program (Program 2025) to sell goods of domestic enterprises with high quality and preferential prices to trade union members and workers.
According to Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha, the 2025 Program has attracted the participation of many businesses with nearly 200,000 turns of trade union members supported by the VGCL to buy goods from businesses in the 2025 Program, with a total value of nearly 90 billion VND, which has been recognized and highly appreciated by all levels of government, businesses, trade union members and society.
With the practical results achieved at the 2025 Program, on the occasion of the Binh Ngo Lunar New Year 2026, the VGCL continues to organize the online "Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026" Program. And the number of union members and workers supported is 200,000 people (support level of 500,000 VND/person). The total amount of support is 100 billion VND.
According to records of the Labor Relations Department of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, in January 2026, many units simultaneously organized direct Trade Union Tet fairs, workers' fairs, discount booths, Vietnamese Goods Fairs, Trade Union Supermarkets... with goods being Vietnamese brands in areas with a large number of workers and laborers living. Thereby, propagating and promoting Vietnamese products that have been protected by trademarks, stimulating domestic consumption demand. Booths provide essential consumer goods (mainly Vietnamese goods) to serve union members and workers with a selling price reduction of at least 10% for each product compared to market prices. And 100% of goods participating in the Tet Market have clear and legal origins, ensuring quality and food safety and hygiene. Goods suppliers must commit not to trade in counterfeit goods, fake goods, poor quality goods, smuggled goods, and at the same time publicly and transparently list prices and sell at listed prices, ensuring consumer rights.
Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha said that the organization of Trade Union Tet Markets in 2026 by trade union levels is a specific activity to bring Vietnamese goods closer to workers and laborers, helping people in localities to directly access domestic products with quality and reasonable prices. Through shopping activities, with the support of Trade Union organizations and businesses, it not only contributes to caring for the material life but also improves the spiritual life of union members and laborers.
It can be affirmed that Trade Union Tet fairs held near the Lunar New Year 2026 not only help raise awareness about the quality of domestic goods, but also help connect businesses with workers, promote the Campaign "Vietnamese people prioritize using Vietnamese goods" - Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Ha shared. Ha Anh wrote
According to the Organizing Committee, in addition to 6,000 union members and workers being given a shopping voucher worth 500,000 VND each by the VGCL, it is expected that more workers will come to shop, with about 10,000 people participating in shopping at the Trade Union Tet Market - Spring 2026.
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