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In a speech at the National Congress of the Vietnam Fatherland Front on May 12, Mr. Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, highlighted the role of trade unions in accompanying workers in emulation for creativity, raising productivity, and contributing to the realization of national development goals.
Entering a new development era, he said the requirement is to maximize the strength of national great unity; to awaken the spirit of patriotic competition, renewal, and the aspiration to contribute of every citizen, including workers.
The President of the General Confederation of Labour said that, in recent times, emulation campaigns for patriotism among workers, civil servants, and laborers have been implemented comprehensively and closely aligned with the country’s political tasks and professional duties across sectors, localities, agencies, units, and enterprises.
He noted that the movement “Excellent workers, Creative workers” has become a driving force for initiating innovations, upgrading technology, rationalizing production, and improving working conditions—helping increase productivity, product quality, and business performance.
Other campaigns, including “Doing well at national tasks, managing household duties” and “Green - Clean - Beautiful, ensuring safety and hygiene at work,” have also been increasingly effective, improving the working environment and enabling members to affirm their value.
In addition, high-intensity peak emulation on key national projects has helped union members overcome difficulties, shorten construction times, and complete ahead of schedule, contributing to socio-economic development.
From the practice of organizing and implementing union emulation campaigns, Mr. Nguyễn Anh Tuấn emphasized the need to widely launch the movement “Excellent workers, high productivity, good incomes,” linked to the “3 savings” campaign, with the motto “excellent workers” as the foundation, “high productivity” as the requirement, and “good incomes” as the result to be aimed for. He described “3 savings” as a management method to reduce waste, increase value, and enhance competitiveness.
He also called for reforming the content and organization methods of emulation movements to be substantive and quantitative, with criteria, products, inspections, summaries, and measurable outcomes.
On commendation work, he said it should be accurate, timely, public, and transparent, oriented toward the grassroots, placing workers at the center, with practical results as the highest yardstick. He added that unions should study, propose, and negotiate with employers a reward mechanism based on the value of benefits created.
Mr. Nguyễn Anh Tuấn further urged mobilizing union members to actively study and upgrade skills, professional discipline, industrial ethos, and labor discipline, describing this as a foundational solution to sustainably raise labor productivity.
He said emulation in the new phase must strongly awaken self-learning and self-innovation, encouraging workers to dare to think, to do, and to improve—so that each worker becomes a creative subject directly contributing to higher labor productivity.
Finally, he said emulation campaigns should be tied to tasks of representing, caring for, and protecting workers’ legitimate rights and interests, ensuring that productivity gains are gradually transformed into income and welfare so workers receive fair benefits for their efforts.
From 2020–2025, through major programs such as “75 thousand innovations, overcoming difficulties, development,” “1 million innovations – efforts to overcome difficulties, creativity, determination to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic,” and the series “Creative Labor Day,” nearly 2.8 million innovations were recognized and applied in practice, delivering an estimated economic benefit of nearly 103 trillion VND.
On average, he said, nearly 560 thousand innovations per year were recognized, with benefit value over 20.5 trillion VND.
Mr. Nguyễn Anh Tuấn concluded that, through union-organized emulation campaigns, Vietnamese workers have left a mark on projects, products, achievements, and the country’s progress.
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