Outstanding workers honoured during Workers' Month

The 2017 Workers’ Month, which runs through May, has been launched by trade unions at all levels with many practical and meaningful activities targeting labourers across the nation.

Local enterprises in Ba Ria-Vung Tau present financial support to help labourers build new houses. (Credit: baobariavungtau.com.vn)

Bac Ninh Province has honoured 30 local workers who have been recognised with excellent performance and results in labour and production emulation movements during the launch for the 2017 Workers’ Month.

The Bac Ninh Labour Confederation also awarded 1,000 gifts to workers living in particularly difficult circumstances and those who suffered from labour accidents, while praising and rewarding 122 outstanding individuals and 40 collectives who organised creative activities in implementing the Workers’ Month

* Phu Tho Provincial Labour Confederation recently held a meeting which drew the participation of 17 enterprises with more than 1,000 workers, in which 17 grassroots trade unions exchanged advantages and disadvantages in organising support activities to care for workers in the time to come.

* Dong Ha City Labour Confederation (Quang Tri Province) reviewed the five-year implementation of the Workers’ Month in the city. Over the past five years, the workers’ months have supported the construction of 12 houses for families of workers with housing difficulties at a total amount of VND360 million. The grassroots trade union has admitted new members, while lobbying for the establishment of trade unions at 41 non-state enterprises.

* Quang Binh Provincial Labour Confederation paid working visits to labourers in the province to inspect their living and employment conditions and encourage them to work effectively.

* During the Workers’ Month, Vietnam Electricity Trade Union organised three missions to visit and present gifts to union members and labourers in its 13 units in the northern, central and southern regions, as well as those who are working on key projects in remote areas with a total amount of nearly VND1 billion.

* The 2017 Workers’ Month launching were also held in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Ha Nam and Thanh Hoa, with financial support presented to labourers to assist them in building new houses and hundreds of valuable gifts given to disadvantaged workers.

(Source: NDO)