The entire Railway industry has 53 collective labor agreements
The Vietnam Railway Trade Union has made many innovations in organization, content and methods of operation, focusing on the grassroots and workers.
On December 28, Mr. Mai Thanh Phuong - Chairman of the Vietnam Railway Trade Union (VFF) said that in the 2023-2025 term, the movement of workers, civil servants, laborers and activities of the VFF have closely followed the direction of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and the Party Committee of the Vietnam Railway Corporation with the motto of action "Innovation - Responsibility - Democracy - Solidarity - Development", constantly striving, seizing opportunities, overcoming difficulties and challenges.
3,027 recommendations at the grassroots level were resolved
The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has actively participated in policy and law making, legal consulting activities; internal management regulations system of units and enterprises related to employees and trade union organizations.
In particular, trade unions at all levels in the entire Industry have actively participated in developing, amending and supplementing the Labor Internal Regulations and the Grassroots Democracy Regulations at the workplace of the unit. During the past term, 1,752 new regulations, rules and regulations of units and enterprises related to units and employees were developed, amended and supplemented.
Trade unions at all levels have also coordinated to develop, amend and supplement the Regulations on implementing grassroots democracy at the workplace; develop a joint venture plan to guide, direct and implement the organization of annual labor conferences to ensure compliance with regulations, quality and efficiency.
Through conferences at all levels, many solutions for production organization have been implemented, an internal management regulations system has been built, amended and supplemented in a timely manner; there are 3,027 recommendations at the grassroots level, 212 recommendations at the Corporation level have been resolved.
Establishment of the "Quantity" group
In particular, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Trade Union has guided and supported grassroots trade unions on negotiation processes and contents to increase the quantity, while improving the quality of the content in signing enterprise collective labor agreements (CLAs), especially contents related to wages, shift meals, benefits ... for union members and employees.
The Vietnam Construction Trade Union has negotiated and signed the Collective Labor Agreement between Parent Company and Vietnam Construction Corporation in 2025 with terms that are more beneficial to employees and higher than those prescribed by law. Trade unions at all levels have urged and supervised the collective bargaining, implementation and implementation of signed collective labor agreements, ensuring that the contents of the collective labor agreements are strictly implemented.
Currently, in the entire Railway industry, there are 53 collective labor agreements out of a total of 60 enterprises and independent accounting units applying to 98 units and enterprises (including branches and places with grassroots trade unions).
One of the units that has done a good job of negotiating and signing the Collective Labor Agreement is the Trade Union of Yen Lao Railway Joint Stock Company, currently the unit has 28 Departmental Trade Unions and 632 union members.
According to Mr. Ha Thanh Hung - Chairman of the Trade Union of Yen Lao Railway Joint Stock Company, in recent years, the Executive Committee of the Company's Trade Union has always been united, under the direction of the Vietnam Railway Trade Union, the leadership of the Company's Party Committee, along with the close and responsible coordination, creating favorable conditions for the profession and youth union, the movement of workers, civil servants and trade union activities at the company are increasingly practical and effective. In particular, improving the quality of negotiation and signing of collective labor agreements plays a very important role, strengthening the legal basis to better care for employees, while building harmonious, stable and progressive labor relations in enterprises.
And in order for collective bargaining and signing of collective labor agreements to have more beneficial contents for employees, during the implementation process, the Company's Trade Union always focuses on propaganda work, raising awareness for employees and employers, attracting attention, contributing opinions, proposing contents suitable to the aspirations of employees, with the actual conditions of the unit.
The company's trade union has established a "Question" team with members of the Standing Committee and some union members who are knowledgeable about the policies; organized an assessment of production and business activities at the company in the last 3 years; collected opinions from employees; agreed on the contents of the proposal to conduct collective bargaining and asked for consensus from the employees.
During the negotiation process, for the contents that were not agreed upon, the negotiation team continued to propose to the employer to organize a second negotiation conference every 5 days. During this time, the negotiating team continued to consolidate the bases, discuss with relevant departments of the profession, and analyze to clarify to reach consensus among employers.
The organization of collective opinions on agreed contents is organized in many forms such as: Posting on the company's electronic information page, via the unit's Email, through the department's union's zalo, the company's union has assigned members to collect direct opinions from employees. Based on the opinions of employees, the second meeting was held to agree on the contents that need to be added to the draft Collective Labor Agreement to continue to improve and sign...
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