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Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Ngo Duy Hieu (6th from left) awarded prizes to the winning workers at the Hanoi City Skilled Workers Competition in 2025. Photo: Ki'U VU
Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Ngo Duy Hieu (6th from left) awarded prizes to the winning workers at the Hanoi City Skilled Workers Competition in 2025. Photo: Ki'U VU

From policy to training Enhancing workers

Kiều Vũ (báo lao động) 02/01/2026 13:53 (GMT+7)

To meet the increasingly high requirements, each worker must improve both his skills and abilities. From the role, position and responsibility of the organization representing workers, the Trade Union organization has had many activities to help them confidently enter the new era.

Theory, skills training, good worker competition

The fact that the vitality of the movement of theory and practice, and the competition for skilled workers organized by the Trade Union has spread widely shows the need to improve knowledge, practice skills and prove the capacity of workers. In Hanoi, the movement has come into life, becoming a motivation for each employee to strive to rise up. 2025 is the fourth time the Hanoi People's Committee and the Hanoi City Labor Federation have coordinated to organize the City-level Skilled Workers' Competition to honor highly skilled workers, good workers, and creative workers; contributing to improving the quality of human resources, increasing labor productivity, and competitiveness of the Capital and the State in the integration process. More importantly, this is an opportunity for workers in units and enterprises in the area to exchange and learn from experience in labor and production, contributing to building a team of skilled technical workers with ethical qualities and industrial style, capable of meeting modern and increasingly advanced technology and production equipment, setting new records in labor productivity, progress and product quality. 362 contestants from 60 enterprises competed and demonstrated their qualifications in 11 competitions, including: Electrical electrolytes; Electrical electrolytes; CNC; CNC; Electric Korea; Korea CO2 and Korea Tig; Industrial electronics; Industrial Electrical; Computer drawing and design; Industrial sewing; Automotive technology. Of which, the profession with the most contestants participating is Industrial Electricity, Co2 Welding and Han Tig, Computer drawing and design. FDI candidates account for 45%. As one of the first prize winners in the Skilled Workers' Competition, Mr. Dang Van Tien - Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd., Tien Son Branch - said that the Competition is an opportunity for workers to improve and improve their professional skills, meeting increasingly modern production lines. "The award helps me become more confident, have more opportunities to learn and exchange experiences with brothers in other businesses. More importantly, I want to bring that knowledge and experience to my company, contributing to many initiatives and improvements to improve work quality, shorten production time while still ensuring high efficiency Mr. Tien shared.

When discussing emulation movements in general, the initiative and creativity movements and the Competitions for Skilled Workers of the Trade Union organization and the Capital's workforce in particular, Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor Ngo Duy Hieu analyzed: Substantial benefits are the most concrete and practical driving force to promote initiatives and creativity in each employee, so the Trade Union should be organized when dialogue, negotiation, and signing of Collective Labor Agreements, and should be included in regulations to enjoy the rights of people with creative initiatives commensurate with their contributions. The Vice President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor also expressed his hope and confidence that the movement to promote initiatives, creativity, emulation of good workers, competition for good workers, review theory, and practice skills of the Hanoi City Labor Federation will continue to develop further in the coming time. This is the way the Capital Trade Union contributes to concretizing Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo on breakthroughs in the development of science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation into life.

Helping workers have stable jobs and higher income

To create opportunities for employees to have better jobs, higher incomes, and quickly adapt to the development of the labor market, the Vietnam Trade Union organization determined to improve the qualifications, capacity, and competitiveness of our country's human resources with countries in the region and the world; meet the needs for quantity and quality requirements of the labor market in the context of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution and digital transformation, development of artificial intelligence. Every year, the Trade Union level organizes propaganda and dissemination of the Party's guidelines and the State's laws and policies on labor, employment, and vocational education for employees; proposes and participates with competent and professional agencies at the same level in developing legal policies, regulations and rules on vocational training for employees. In particular, trade unions that need vocational training to change jobs for workers will conduct negotiations to include this content in the Collective Labor Agreement; develop a plan to coordinate and link with businesses and trade unions to train vocational training for workers; coordinate with authorities and professional unions at the same level to organize Skilled Workers' Competitions and Vocational Competitions for Workers, focusing on new occupations that businesses have high demand for.

Training and retraining for employees in FDI enterprises is one of the activities that is receiving attention. The Union's participation in activities to improve the quality of employees in FDI enterprises demonstrates its role in caring for and protecting the legitimate and legal rights and interests of union members and employees in enterprises. Because, in current conditions, employees working in enterprises in general, FDI enterprises in particular, always want to study, improve their qualifications, capacity... to increase job opportunities, increase income, and improve their lives. In addition, when the quality of employees is improved, it will help businesses improve labor productivity and enhance competitiveness compared to other businesses. In reality, it is necessary to organize surveys and consult with employers of FDI enterprises on the needs and training content; strengthen connections and information exchange between enterprises, especially FDI enterprises. Because the training content must meet the needs of businesses. In addition to the survey at the micro-level of enterprises, it is also necessary to analyze and evaluate the demand for job training at the macro level of sectors of the national economy, accordingly, the training content focuses on training qualifications, vocational skills, soft skills, etc.

Cong nhan lao dong tham gia Hoi thi Tho gioi Thanh pho Ha Noi nam 2025.  Anh: KIEU VU
Workers participate in the Hanoi City Skilled Workers Competition in 2025. Photo: Ki'U VU

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