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The Changing Character of Strikes in Vietnam

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Vietnam introduced mechanisms for the resolution of collective disputes under the 1994 Labour Code, which provided for the use of the strike weapon as a last resort. Since then, Vietnam has seen around 100 reported strikes a year, not one of which has been called in accordance with the legal procedure, with a sharp increase in strike activity at the beginning of 2006. The character of strikes is also changing and the government is anxious to address the problem. Vietnamese discussion has focused on legislative reforms, but this is to ignore the fundamental substantive issue underlying the prevalence of wildcat strikes, which is the failure to develop a system of industrial relations within which the Vietnamese trade unions can effectively represent their members. This issue is coming to a head as a tight labour market encourages workers to press their interests beyond the rights embodied in the law.

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  • Simon Clarke, 2006. "The Changing Character of Strikes in Vietnam," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(3), pages 345-361.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pocoec:v:18:y:2006:i:3:p:345-361
    DOI: 10.1080/14631370600881796
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    1. Dong Hoang, 2019. "Labour Standards in the Global Supply Chain: Workers’ Agency and Reciprocal Exchange Perspective," Societies, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-25, May.
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    3. Do Quynh Chi & Di van den Broek, 2020. "Gendered labour activism in the Vietnamese manufacturing industry," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(6), pages 1145-1164, November.
    4. Yoon, Youngmo., 2009. "A comparative study on industrial relations and collective bargaining in East Asian countries," ILO Working Papers 994471893402676, International Labour Organization.
    5. Chi, Do Quynh, 2022. "Formation of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreements Domestic Advisory Group: What it means for the civil society in Vietnam?," IPE Working Papers 191/2022, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE).
    6. Simon Clarke & Tim Pringle, 2009. "Can party-led trade unions represent their members?," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 85-101.
    7. Diep Thi Ngoc Nguyen & Stephen T. T. Teo & Marcus Ho, 2018. "Development of human resource management in Vietnam: A semantic analysis," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 35(1), pages 241-284, March.

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