"The 9th Congress of the provincial Labour Union in tenure 2013-2018 demonstrated the will of the majority of union members, public servants to innovate organization and operation in order to constitute the powerful working class and trade unions", Chairman of provincial Labor Union Mr. Le Thanh Nhon said.Reporter: Could you tell the advantages and disadvantages of the trade union in the next term?Mr. Le Thanh Nhon: In the coming years, provincial trade union has advantages: implement Resolution No. 20 "Persistence of Vietnamese working class building in industrialization and modernization period"; amendments of Laws of Labour, Laws of Trade Union with more detailed, suitable regulation deployment; trade unions at all levels and servants’ maturity; increasing number of enterprises and workers, all are pressure and condition to gather members and construct union units.

Chairman of provincial Labor Union, Mr. Le Thanh Nhon congratulated workers supported bus tickets on Tet 2013 On the other hand, the trade union is also facing difficulties: economic recession; requirements of labour’s higher level and quality, so some workers lost their jobs due to unqualified abilitiesReporter: What are goals for the next term, sir?Mr. Le Thanh Nhon: Slogan for the next term is "Continuing innovation organization and operation; for lawful rights and interests of unionists, workers; for provincial stability and sustainable development". Accordingly, the set goals are: innovation of organization and operation that generate drastic changes on the organization and cadre’s quality, especially out-of-State enterprises’ union units; improve responsibilities of trade union for public servants’ problems addressing, harmonious labor relations’ construction at businesses; cadres and the union enhancing, effective organization of patriotic emulation movement to meet requirements of promote economic industrialization, modernization and restructuring; foster servant’s role in the Party and government building, contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of provincial Congress Party.Reporter: So, what striving targets were set, sir?Mr. Le Thanh Nhon: We defined 7 target groups, namely, 90% workers of State-owned units, enterprises, 70% workers of out-of-State businesses were universalized labour laws and Laws of Trade union amendments 2012; 100% unionists were free consulted about labor laws; admission of 100,000 new unionists; 75% out-of-State businesses had trade union in accordance with Vietnamese Union regulations; 90% cadres had university degrees and 100% cadres, which were members of union unit’s Executive committee, were trained professional skills; 100% State-owned union units, 90% out-of-State units established female Boards, the female structure of Executive committee reached 30% or more, 100% unions at grassroots level had female structure in key leadership; every year, at least 90 % State-owned unions and 50% out-of-State unions reached strong standards. At the same time, each CDCS annually introduced average 1 cadre for retraining.Reporter: Could you tell methods to achieve these targets?Mr. Le Thanh Nhon: We will focus on accomplishment of our duties that are: to represent and protect the legitimate interests of workers; strengthen educational propaganda contributing to strong working class building; implement patriotic emulation; continue renewing the organization and operation, improve the activities’ quality; pay attention to the inspection of unions; and maneuver female workers.Reporter: Thank you! Reported by Tieu Lien – Translated by Ngoc Huynh