A number of firms paid attention to caring for workers’ lives, protecting their legitimate rights and interests, and improving their income. Many grassroots trade unions actively inspected and monitored the implementation of policies for workers, actively offered suggestions to authorities to meet their legitimate aspirations, and dealt with important issues regarding employment, income, and payment of social, health and unemployment insurance premiums. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year, they renewed operating methods to overcome difficulties together with enterprises, adopted advanced technologies to cut costs and improve products’ competitiveness, thus bringing profit and maintaining stable income for trade union members and workers.

The Midori Apparel Vietnam Hoa Binh Co. Ltd based in Luong Son industrial park is a wholly foreign-invested firm with over 1,200 workers. After going into operation, it established a grassroots trade union to ensure legitimate rights and interests of workers. As a result, workers’ income have improved, reaching 7 million VND on average per person each month. All workers were equipped with protective suits and undertook training courses on labour safety and hygiene. Due attention was paid to other policies such as salary, year-end and productivity bonuses.