In order to highlight and emphasize the function of trade unions to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers, the new trade union law stipulates: "The All-China Federation of Trade Unions and its trade union organizations represent the interests of workers and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests according to law." "Safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers is the basic duty of trade unions. Trade unions represent and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers while safeguarding the overall interests of the people throughout the country. "
In order to ensure that the trade union can effectively play its role and protect and mobilize the enthusiasm of the broad masses of workers. At present, some enterprises ignore employees' working conditions and safety, extend working hours at will, deduct employees' wages, fail to provide labor safety protection, and even restrict employees' personal freedom, which seriously infringes on employees' legitimate rights and interests, leading to vicious safety accidents and employee mass incidents and affecting social stability.
In this regard, the trade union has the responsibility to reflect the situation in a timely manner, negotiate on behalf of employees and enterprises on safeguarding the labor rights and interests of employees, and let enterprises correct them to avoid further intensification of contradictions and safeguard the overall situation of reform, development and stability.
Therefore, the new "Trade Union Law" stipulates: "Enterprises and institutions have the following violations of labor laws and regulations, and trade unions negotiate with enterprises and institutions on behalf of employees and ask them to take measures to correct them; Enterprises and institutions shall study and deal with it and give a reply to the trade union.
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On October 29th, 2065438+0818/KLOC-0, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that trade unions should earnestly perform their basic duties of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers and serving the masses wholeheartedly, and firmly root the concept of the masses in their hearts.
The basic duties of trade unions are the fundamental and primary duties of trade unions, and the basic work and primary task for trade unions to perform various social functions. They are determined by the nature and status of trade unions in China, and are closely related to the emergence, objectives and tasks of trade unions in China.
The 17th National Congress of China Trade Union expanded the basic duties of the trade union to "safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers and serve the masses wholeheartedly", which reflected the changes of the Party's requirements for trade union work and the changes of the trade union's objectives and tasks, and was closely related to the historical position of the trade union, which was of great political, theoretical and practical significance to the development of the Party's labor movement and trade union work.
First, it has implemented Xi Jinping Jinping's Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the New Era and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the working class and trade union work, which is of great political significance. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the working class and trade union work is an important part of Xi Jinping Jinping's Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, which provides theoretical guidance and action guide for trade unions to perform their basic duties.
The 17th National Congress of China Trade Union systematically explained General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the working class and trade union work, and summarized the basic connotation of the important exposition with "eight persistences", one of which was to hold high the banner of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers, emphasizing that the focus of these important expositions was to safeguard the rights and interests of workers and serve the masses of workers.
Defining the basic responsibilities of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers and serving the masses wholeheartedly conforms to the basic spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the working class and trade union work, implements our party's people-centered development thought and the policy of relying on the working class wholeheartedly, embodies the political, advanced and mass nature of trade union organizations, and conforms to the nature, value orientation and objectives and tasks of trade unions in China.
Second, it enriches Marxist workers' movement theory and the party's mass work theory, which is of great theoretical significance. Over the years, researchers have conducted in-depth research on the functions and basic responsibilities of trade unions and achieved many results.
Some define the basic duties of trade unions and analyze their significance. They believe that safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers is the foundation of the existence of trade unions, the need to establish a socialist market economic system, the main means for trade unions to obey and serve the central task of the party, and the core of their functions.
Some sort out the changes in the connotation of the basic duties of trade unions, and attribute the changes to changes in the economic system and state functions, and the sharp rise in cases of infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of employees. These studies on the basic duties of trade unions mainly focus on safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers and making necessary explorations on the characteristics and laws of the basic duties of trade unions.
The expansion of the basic duties of trade unions in the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a summary, deepening and generalization of previous research on trade union theory, a crystallization of collective research inside and outside trade unions, which enriches and develops Marxist workers' movement theory and the party's mass work theory, embodies the theoretical quality of keeping pace with the times of Marxism, and is an important achievement of trade union theoretical innovation.
Third, it has adapted to the new changes in the main social contradictions and the new expectations of the workers and staff, which has great practical significance. The change of major social contradictions is an important basis for the establishment and development of the basic duties of trade unions.
After 40 years of reform and opening up, new changes have taken place in the internal structure, employment form, skills and quality, and the realization of rights and interests of the labor force, and the demand level has been continuously improved. This is an inevitable trend of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's development in the new era and an important symbol of economic development and social progress.
At the same time, with the deepening of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, a large number of new technologies, new formats and new models have emerged, and many new situations and problems have emerged in the establishment and operation of labor relations, which are difficult to achieve and satisfy only by the traditional single way of safeguarding rights.
In this case, on the one hand, trade unions are required to safeguard the rights and interests of workers through various rights protection methods; On the other hand, trade unions are required to provide higher quality services from more fields and levels to meet the growing needs of workers in democracy, rule of law, fairness, justice, safety and environment.
The expansion of the basic duties of trade unions conforms to the development of the situation, the needs of workers and the reality of trade unions, which is of historical inevitability and practical urgency.
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