Labor unions in foreign-invested firms in Vietnam protect workers' rights ineffectively and inactively, mainly because the unions' members, also the companies' employees, do not have enough time for labor union activities and experiences in negotiations.
Eighty percent of 60 surveyed foreign-invested firms employing a total of 80,000 workers have labor unions, but only half of them have working agreements, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Tuesday.
Some expenses such as those for lunch or transport are not mentioned in the agreements, the paper said, noting that companies regard the expenses as grants to their employees.
Up to 59.3 percent of workers in foreign-invested firms having labor unions are labor union members, and 28.3 percent of them want to join the organizations.
Foreign-invested companies in Vietnam employ 1.1 million people. Among thousands of disputes and 1,600 strikes in the country over the past decade, 70 percent have occurred in foreign-invested firms.
Source: Xinhua
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