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Chairman of TKV Trade Union Le Thanh Xuan encouraged the workers. Photo: TKV Trade Union
Chairman of TKV Trade Union Le Thanh Xuan encouraged the workers. Photo: TKV Trade Union

The driving force for innovation needs to start from caring for workers

Kiều Vũ (báo lao động) 07/09/2025 08:31 (GMT+7)

Mr. Le Thanh Xuan, member of the Presidium of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, Chairman of the TKV Trade Union affirmed that the TKV Trade Union must become an important driving force to promote innovation and creativity to build and develop the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (TKV).

Diversifying forms of care for workers

In reality, TKV Trade Union's activities are focused on the grassroots, with employees as the center. The work of developing union members and attracting workers has always been focused on. Regularly participate in building the Party organization, actively contribute opinions, criticize, build and perfect the policies and resolutions of Party committees at all levels in the Group. In just 5 years, more than 6,100 outstanding union members and workers have been introduced to foster awareness of the Party, introduced and admitted nearly 5,000 new Party members, affirming the pioneering role of the trade union organization in Party building work.

To ensure the legitimate and legal rights of employees as well as accompany businesses, TKV Trade Union always attaches importance to implementing democracy at the workplace. Regularly organize forms of dialogue to listen to thoughts and aspirations, as well as grasp the proposals and recommendations of employees on policies, regulations and rules.

Thereby closely coordinating with the professional team and proposing recommendations to the Departments, Ministries, branches, and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor to consider adjusting and supplementing in accordance with legal regulations and the legitimate aspirations of the majority of employees. TKV Trade Union coordinated to organize 552 grassroots and above-level labor conferences, and conducted a credit survey of 20,416 managers at all levels. In particular, 445 Collective Labor Agreements of enterprises have been amended and supplemented. Currently, the Group's Collective Labor Agreement has 12 points that are more beneficial to employees...

In particular, taking care of the welfare and improving the lives of employees is not only a responsibility but has become a beautiful cultural feature of TKV, TKV Trade Union has focused all resources to directly care for the lives and serve employees. Of which, trade unions at all levels organized and coordinated to organize for nearly 320,000 people to go on domestic and international tours and vacations. The Miners' Welfare Program organized by TKV Trade Union has had thousands of outstanding union members go on tours and vacations, thousands of union members receive care and support to recover their health.

Also from the care for union members and employees, TKV Trade Union has created a very unique model. That is the implementation of the program to build a "Clean - Civilized" mining workers' collective housing area, along with management work, activities such as "Green Saturday", environmental sanitation campaign, and organizing cultural and sports activities that have contributed to improving the quality of life and activities, creating a better environment for workers, increasing the attraction and attachment of workers to businesses.

Becoming an important driving force for innovation and creativity

In response to the Group's new development requirements, with the goal of "Solidarity, Democracy, Discipline, Innovation, Development" of the 4th Party Congress of the Group, TKV Trade Union identified its responsibility not only to protect the rights of employees, but also to become an important driving force to promote innovation and creativity to build and develop the Group.

According to Mr. Le Thanh Xuan, member of the Presidium of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor, Chairman of the TKV Trade Union, to achieve the above goal, TKV Trade Union will continue to work with specialized agencies to study new mechanisms and policies that are more beneficial to employees, especially on wages and special regimes for workers. Maintain the welfare regimes with the unique identity of the group, improve the quality of accommodation and living services for employees; promote the upgrade program and build new workers' collective housing areas to ensure convenience and civilization.

In addition, promoting the role in protecting the rights and improving the lives of workers. Continue to research, propose and negotiate to improve the quality of Collective Labor Agreements. Promote action programs associated with "Workers' Safety and Health". Maintain and improve the quality of employee service. Pay attention to hard-working workers, working away from home, unmarried young workers, and disadvantaged families through practical support programs.

The Chairman of TKV Trade Union emphasized the need to effectively implement grassroots democracy work, innovate content and methods of operation in line with the trend of digital transformation and energy transformation; promote the tradition of "discipline and Unity" associated with the spirit of innovation, integration and sustainable development; encourage initiatives and technical improvements to optimize production associated with the green production movement, sustainable development, environmental friendliness; propagate and mobilize workers to adapt to digital management methods.

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