All project resources
Employers’ networking and Capacity Building - Practical experiences from Project’s sites
Lessons learnt from report developed by NIRF/Japan project to widely share and replicate best practices and practical lessons from activities of VCCI and Business Associations to improve and enhance the representative capacity of the Employers...
Research Report: Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement - Towards a High-road Approach
The Report presents highlights and good practices in promoting Multi-employer Bargaining Agreements - an initiative towards better rights and benefits for the workers. During the MEBA pilot period 2016-2019, the ILO NIRF/Japan Project has provided...
Discussion paper
Discussion paper on Trade union election - an important foundation of a workers’ organization
The discussion paper provides the evaluation and lessons learnt of the pilot on Direct election of chairperson for grassroots trade unions at the Union Congress.
Brochure
Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement among wood-processing enterprises in Binh Duong
The publication gives introduction of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement signed among wood-processing enterprises in Binh Duong, and the ILO’s Standards and Significance of Collective Bargaining.
Publication
Extension of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement in Trang Due Industrial Zone - Hai Phong
The publication gives introduction of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement signed among Korean electronics enterprises in Trang Due industrial zone, Hai Phong, and the ILO’s Standards and Significance of Collective Bargaining.
Video
Guidance on Trade Union engagement in labour dispute settlement and proceedings in the courts
The guidance was developed by ILO-NIRF/Japan project and Viet Nam General Confederation of Labor to provide trade union officials in litigation processes and practical examples for reference in representing and protecting workers' rights.
Discussion papers
Collective Bargaining in Viet Nam
Trade unions, is it important? Why?
ILO Viet Nam Director Chang-Hee Lee had a TED talk with students of Trade Union University and union leaders at an event on 31 May to celebrate 90 years of Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour and 100 years of the ILO.
Trade union
Students learn about Viet Nam’s union history and ILO
A public event to celebrate 90 years of Viet Nam’s Trade Union and 100 years of ILO attracted the country’s top union leaders and hundreds of students.
Brochure on Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement in Da Nang
Industrial relations
ILO Viet Nam leader joins Politburo Member Truong Thi Mai on Hai Phong’s visit
This is one of Viet Nam’s localities with recorded progresses in establishing trade unions and improving industrial relations.
Industrial relations
Multi-employer social dialogue benefits southern garment workers
The collective action can reduce staff turnover, strengthen the relationship between workers and employers, and promote stable industrial relations, allowing workers to enjoy the same working conditions across firms.
Collective bargaining
Multi-employer collective bargaining agreement extended to 10 tourism companies
The number of participating firms in Da Nang City is expected to reach 50 in 2019.
ILO-Japan programme
Japanese parliamentary members explore effective ways to support Viet Nam’s labour issues
The delegation aimed to identify decent work challenges faced by Vietnamese workers and find solutions to address them as more and more major Japanese companies are choosing Viet Nam to locate their factories.
Trade union
Nation’s industrial zone unions network established
The network, which includes 50 trade unions of industrial zones, processing zones and economic zones in 48 cities and provinces across the country, is a ‘soft’ mechanism based on a voluntary basis, to support each another in performing trade union...
Improving the Representative Role of Trade Unions and Employers in the New Industrial Relation Framework (NIRF/Japan Project) brochure
Industrial relations
What’s on tonight: TV drama depicts workers’ unionization
Awl, a highly-rated Korean soap opera, is on VTV2 every evening.
Workshop on Promoting effective organization and operation of Industrial/Export Processing/Economic Zone Trade Unions (IZ/EPZ/EZ)
Viet Nam's joining a number of new generation Free Trade Agreements is predicted to exert strong impacts on the development of enterprises, which creates both opportunities and challenges for trade union( (TU) activities and industrial relations,...
Workshop on raising awareness on ILO core conventions and labour commitments in the free trade agreements
The event is co-organized by ILO and VGCL with the aim to raise awareness for key trade union leaders, especially the newly elected presidents of FOLs, Industrial Unions on ILO core conventions.
Review meeting of multi-employer collective bargaining agreement