1 million initiatives programme spreads workers’ creativity and pride

(BGO)- The programme “1 million initiatives – efforts to overcome difficulties, be creative, determined to win the Covid-19 pandemic" (“1 million initiatives" programme) launched by Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) since 8 January 2022 is at the runaway stage (which will finish on September 1, 2023).

Nguyen Thi Thuong, a worker of the garment team No 6, Viet Pan Pacific Company Limited in Bac Giang city, has been awarded the excellent worker title in the first quarter 2023 by the Company Director. She has worked for the company for 11 years when she has always well fulfilled her duties and received good sentiments from he co-workers and trust from the managers.

The production line of Daeyang Hanoi Company Limited in Tan Yen district.

“The garment job requires workers to be careful at every tiny item because one small mistake can also affect appearance and quality of the products, even the company prestige. Thus, I have to spend time studying causes of each error to seek solutions for correcting it”, said Thuong.

With her creative thought and experience, Thuong has naturally become the “inititative specialist” of the company. She provides 2 initiatives each year for technical improvement in garment production process. All of her initiatives have been applied and gained practical efficiency. Particularly, her latest initiative “replacing presser foot in sewing machine” has helped to speed up the production progress and reduce product errors. 

She submitted this initiative to the software to participate in the “1 million initiatives” programme. Previously, the sewing machines used 5mm presser foot running only 1 seam each time which took time and easily made errors; hence, Thuong recommended the company leaders to replace with 2mm and 3mm foot presser which can run 2 stitches at the same time.

This method helps to increase precision with fine stiches especially increase the number of products from 30 to 40 clothes per each production line while the number of product errors decreases to 10 percent from 30 percent before. Currently, her garment production line needs only 40 workers instead of 45. Her initiative benefits the company hundreds of million VND (some 4,262 USD) each year.

Participating in the “1 million initiatives” programme, male worker Nguyen Van Khanh of Hon Hai Technology Group in Dinh Tram industrial park submitted the initiative “Transporting moulds and materials with automatic vehicle”. He said this initiatiave came from the difficulties in real production. Before he raised this initiative, the workers had to mannually move moulds and assembly materials to the working tables, which took time traveling and affected the productivity. Besides, errors could occur if the workers took wrong materials.

After observing and coming out the idea, Khanh recommended the team leader and he was approved to collaborate with the technical team to produce successfully the automatic vehicle to transport moulds and materials. Since his initiative was first applied in August 2022, the mentioned limitations have been surmounted facilitating the workers of the production line, increasing the labour productivity and reducing product errors.

The “1 million initiatives” programme launched by VGCL at the time when the whole country joint hands to fight against Covid-19 pandemic and gradually recovered the economy. The programme aimed to stimulate the patriotism and creativity of trade unionists, employees and workers nationwide contributing to development of each agency, unit and enterprise for the general development of the whole nation.

In response to this meaningful programme, Bac Giang has been reported to rank 7th in Vietnam in terms of the number of participants with nearly 8,800 people and also ranked 7th regarding the number of entries with 52,100 initiatives as of 25 April.

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