The Vietnam Trade Union is a large sociopolitical organization of the working class, a contingent of intellectuals and workers voluntarily set up for the purpose of gathering and unifying forces and building the strong Vietnamese working classin all aspects; represents and protects the legal and legitimate rights and interests of employees. Currently, the Vietnam Trade Union is expanded, the union staff’s capacity, theoretical qualifications, skills are improving.The duties of representing the legitimate rights and interests of workers in the labor planning are actively implemented by the trade union at all levels. However, the quality of the operation of some trade union officials is still limited, the participation of grassroots trade unions in dialogue activities and collective bargaining to establish working conditions in enterprises is still formalistic. Therefore,the article describes the reality of Trade Unions in Vietnam and offers a number of solutions to help Vietnam Trade Union become stronger.

Keywords : Trade union, Vietnam, Wage and Salaried Workers.