VGCL President Cuong, who is also the WFTU Vice President, joined the Presidium of the conference at the opening ceremony.
The conference is scheduled to ratify the 2017 financial and operation reports of WFTU, while discussing measures to improve the organisation’s performance in 2018 and its theme for 2019, with a focus on training.
After the opening speech by the WFTU, the participants were briefed on the host’s socio-economic development, labour, and the role of its trade union in policy-making, as well as its national action plans on poverty eradication, inequality abolishment, employment growth and the labourers’ voice.