Kelvin Cao

How to get a job as an union officials in your country? 1. By choice? 2. Apply for a job? 3. Because of the experience should be recruited? 4. Have some relationships? 5. Several others I really want to know??? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trong Nghia TDTU http://trongnghia1300057.blogspot.com/

4 phases to successful negotiation in Viet Nam: 1. Preparation phase of CBA Enterprise Union Executive Board work by themself Enterprise Union Executive Board decides to seek help from the district to come and lead union negotiation team. + Discuss and prioritize workers' demands, make a list of prioritized demands + Management Negotiation Team discusses and prioritizes management's concerns and demands 2. Negotiation phase of CBA Meeting to agree on some ground rule for the negotiations defining an issue and sharing interests. Ground Rues: + Negotiations are voluntary, and parties can agree to any solution that satisfies interests as long as they are not prohibited by law + Both parties shall be represented by representatives authorized to make decisions on behalf of their respective sides + Either side has right to call for a caucus to discus an issue in private + All negotiation team members will be paid by the company for time spent in negotiations + The CBA mu...

Some reasons let to strikes in Viet Nam Strike seem to occur due to employers not complying with the labor law and infringing on worker's rights. In recent years, the main reasons for strikes tend to be conflicts over interesrs (70%), The workers are demanding higher wage increase and better working conditions. The question is: why are they all wildcat strikes? In the market economy, conflicts between the interests of employers and worker are inevitable. The workers are always want to improve their working conditions, increase income, while employers are must focus more on increasing productivity, cost cutting, etc. The conflict of interests between workers and employers does not have to lead to a strike if direct dialogue and collective bargaining take place regularly and two-way communication is effective applied. Wildcat strikes happen mainly when communication, dialogue and negotiation mechanism are not working effectively. The ILO estimates that perhaps 90% of the wildc...

Learning about Unions in English at Tôn Đức Thắng University, Việt Nam exist many difficulties. In the context of global cooperation, TPP is in the process of negotiations. It's very hard to know exactly how TPP will affect laborers in Vietnam. Learning about  union in English becomes very difficult, because we do not have any specialized English dictionaries to study, access and research union organizations of the world. We just have one teacher, Mrs Vinh , who teach us in English. Currently, the Labor and trade union departments at Tôn Đức Thắng University have only 4 teachers and over 500 students who study in English. Their areas of study are: Organizational behavior Personality psychology Social benefits and compensation The Art of Leadership Vietnam laws and stipulations of trade unions Labor and trade union overview Bargaining skills between unions and employers Social Insurance Labor relation strategy Cross culture management Labor law Labor c...

Ho Chi Minh city, 2/4/2016 Last night, I had a wonderful time with: Katie Quan-a senior labor specialist at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education; Murray Gregor-teacher come from Canada-work for ILO right now; Vy and An. We enjoyed dinner, coffee at Union's Coffee shop and talked about how to learn Union at   Ton Duc Thang University , TPP, Strike, Labor Relation in the US, Canada and also VietNam. We also considered with the master's program at the University of Massachusetts, Rutgers University, San Fransisco State University, Cornell University, Michigan State University... Murray Gregor introduced to me a wonderful website with more than a thousand conferences by different experts on Labor Relation issues, It is:  http://www.crimt.org/ The website of his School of Industrial Relations:  http://en.eri.umontreal.ca/our-school/summer-school/ Katie Quan talked about her job, her Research Articles in China next time... That was very...

Continuing the series of articles about strikes, today I will write about  the recent strike situation in Vietnam. 1.      Total number of strikes + In 2008: There were 762 strikes but in 2014 there were only 303 strikes + Number of strikes in 2014:           FDI : 68%           State enterprises: 31.167%          Enterprises to freely: 0.33% + Number of Strikes in Foreign-Invested Firms + Strikes by industry in 2014          Garment                    114      Because there are a lot of garment factories in Vietnam and many foreign companies have started producing here, there were many changes in the recent ly           Footwear industry    54 This is one of the main industr...

Female employees in foreign countries: Disadvantaged Up to now, there are 500.00 female employees work in 40 countries around the world, the proportion of female employees is about 30%-35% and they are underpaided and not to be protected by local law. The reasons: 1. The labor export companies(200) do not provide sufficient information to the employees: + They just provide the good informations + They do not provide the hazards/risks in the foreign countries 2. The policy of some countries + Directors cac terminate the labor contract labor for pregnant women(in Japan)  3. The worker with low skill levels + Female employees are not to be trained skills labor before + Female employees subject to the now poverty reduction should go abroad Facing many risks: 1. Women workers vulnerable to seduction 2. Female employees sexually abused 3. Female employees are exploited labor So the solutions: 1. Need to create better conditions for women io exercise th...