Constitution of Chinese Trade Unions (Revised in 2018)
Constitution of Chinese Trade Unions (Revised in 2018)
Constitution of Chinese Trade Unions (Revised in 2018)
October 26, 2018
(Adopted at the 17th National Congress of Chinese Trade Unions on October 26, 2018)
General Provisions
The Chinese trade unions are mass organizations of the Chinese working class which are under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and formed by the workers of their own free will. They serve as a bridge and link between the Party and workers and an important social pillar of the state power and represent the interests of the trade union members and workers.
With the Constitution of the People's Republic of China as the fundamental principle for their activities, the Chinese trade unions shall, in accordance with the Trade Union Law of the People's Republic of China and the Constitution of the Chinese Trade Unions, act independently, and exercise their rights and fulfill their obligations in accordance with the law.
The working class is the leading class of China, represents the advanced productive forces and relations of production, is the most solid and reliable class foundation for the Communist Party of China, serves as the main force in the reform and opening-up and in socialist modernization construction and is a powerful and concentrated social force maintaining the social stability. The Chinese trade unions shall hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, follow the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, act in accordance with the Party's basic line of centering on the economic construction, upholding the Four Cardinal Principles and sticking to the reform and opening-up, preserve and strengthen their political consciousness, advanced nature, and orientation toward the people, unswervingly pursue the trade union development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote the implementation of basic guidelines of wholeheartedly relying on the working class, fully perform their social functions and, while maintaining the overall interests of the people of the whole country, seek better ways to reflect and protect the specific interests of the workers, rally and mobilize nationwide workers to start undertakings through arduous efforts and self-reliance, uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, and strive for the formation of a comprehensive well-off society, the building of China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, powerful, democratic, civilized and harmonious, and the realization of Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The Chinese trade unions are willing to uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China, undertake the political responsibility of uniting and guiding the workers to follow the instructions and guidance of the Party, to consolidate and expand the class foundation and mass base of the Party's governance.
The basic duty of the Chinese trade unions is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the workers and to serve the workers wholeheartedly.
The Chinese trade unions shall work in accordance with the overall plan for promoting all-round economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, promote innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development, focus on the dominant theme of labor movement that promotes the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, promote the spirit of model workers, labor and craftsmanship, mobilize and organize workers to take an active part in the development and reform and to actively promote the development of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization; represent and organize workers to take part in the governance of the State and social affairs and in the democratic management of enterprises, public institutions and State organs; educate workers to practice socialist core values and to constantly improve their ideological and ethnical qualities and their scientific and cultural levels, so as to promote the development and reform of the industrial workforce, to build up a contingent of well-educated and self-disciplined workers with high ideals and moral integrity and to continuously develop the progressive characteristics of working class.
The Chinese trade unions shall be committed to taking loyalty to the Party's cause and serving the workers wholeheartedly, adhere to the working policy of being organized and safeguarding rights, preserve the concept of protecting workers' rights in an active, law-based, and scientific manner, promote improvement of socialism labor laws, protect the economic, political, cultural and social rights of the workers, take participation in the coordination of the labor relations and the social interest relations, strive to constitute harmonious labor relations, promote the high-quality economic development and long-term stability of the society, maintain the unity of the working class and trade unions, so as to make contributions to building a harmonious socialist society.
The Chinese trade unions shall safeguard the socialist state power of the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance, assist the people's governments in perform their duties, and give play to the role of democratic participation and social supervision in accordance with the law.
In enterprises and public institutions, the Chinese trade unions shall, based on the principles of promoting the development of enterprises and public institutions and safeguarding the rights and interests of workers, support the administrative authorities in exercising their administrative power according to law, organize workers to participate in democratic management and democratic supervision, establish a consultation system with the administrative departments of such enterprises and public institutions, safeguard workers' lawful rights and interests, motivate workers and promote the development of enterprises and public institutions.
The Chinese trade unions practice the principle of combining union organizations formed along the industrial line with those formed on the locality basis, and uphold the system of democratic centralism.
The Chinese trade unions shall persist in building themselves with the spirit of reform and innovation, establish a working system with extensive connections and serving workers, enhance the functions of solidarity and education, safeguarding rights and interests, and serving workers, persist in the people-oriented approach and democratization, maintain close ties with the masses and members and rely on them to carry out the trade union work. The leading bodies of trade unions at various levels shall persistently place the priority of their work on the grassroots, make efforts to expand coverage and increase representation, focus on strengthening service awareness and improving the capability to protect rights, make efforts to strengthen team building and improve guarantees, adhere to the work lifeline of serving the workers and the masses, serve the grassroots and workers wholeheartedly, build smart trade unions, enhance the attractiveness, cohesion, and combat effectiveness of grassroots trade unions, build more dynamic and powerful trade union organizations, making them become learning- and service-oriented, and innovative "home of workers" that is deeply trusted by workers and the masses.
The enterprises and public institutions established by trade unions shall maintain their public warfare and service-oriented nature, adhere to serving the reform and opening-up and the development of social productive forces, serving the masses and workers, and promoting the cause of the labor movement.
The Chinese trade unions shall make efforts to consolidate and develop the worker-peasant alliance, maintain the broadest patriotic united front, and strengthen the great unity of the people of all nationalities throughout the country, including the compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, Taiwan compatriots, and overseas Chinese, with a view to promoting the reunification of the motherland and making it prosperous and strong.
In international affairs, the Chinese trade unions shall uphold the principles of maintaining the independence, respecting each other, seeking common points while reserving difference, strengthening cooperation and solidifying friendships and, on the basis of independence, equality, mutual respect and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, extensively establish and develop friendly relations with the international trade union organizations and those of various countries, actively participate in the Belt and Road initiative, enhance the friendship between working class of China and that of other countries, and play a role in promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and strive for the world peace, development, cooperation and workers' rights and interests as well as social progress, together with the workers and trade unions all over the world.
The Chinese trade unions shall implement the general requirements of Party building in the new era, take the Party's political building as the command, comprehensively strengthen Party building, enhance "Four Consciousnesses" which are maintaining political integrity, thinking in big-picture terms, following the leadership core, and keeping in alignment, remain firmly confident in the socialist path, theory, system, and culture, resolutely uphold the core position of the General Secretary Xi Jinping on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and resolutely uphold the Central Committee's authority and its centralized and unified leadership, and maintain a high degree of unity with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in ideology, politics and action.
Chapter I Membership
Article 1 Membership of trade unions is open to all manual and mental workers, irrespective of their nationality, race, gender, occupation, religious belief, or educational level, in enterprises, public institutions, State organs and other social organizations within the territory of China on condition that they rely on wages or salaries as their main source of income or establish labor relationships with employers and accept the Constitution of the Chinese Trade Unions.
Article 2 For admission to the Chinese trade unions, the worker shall submit an application voluntarily, which will be approved by a grassroots trade union committee, whereupon a membership certificate will be issued to the applicant.
Article 3 Trade union members enjoy the following rights:
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October 26, 2018
(Adopted at the 17th National Congress of Chinese Trade Unions on October 26, 2018)
General Provisions
The Chinese trade unions are mass organizations of the Chinese working class which are under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and formed by the workers of their own free will. They serve as a bridge and link between the Party and workers and an important social pillar of the state power and represent the interests of the trade union members and workers.
With the Constitution of the People's Republic of China as the fundamental principle for their activities, the Chinese trade unions shall, in accordance with the Trade Union Law of the People's Republic of China and the Constitution of the Chinese Trade Unions, act independently, and exercise their rights and fulfill their obligations in accordance with the law.
The working class is the leading class of China, represents the advanced productive forces and relations of production, is the most solid and reliable class foundation for the Communist Party of China, serves as the main force in the reform and opening-up and in socialist modernization construction and is a powerful and concentrated social force maintaining the social stability. The Chinese trade unions shall hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, follow the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, act in accordance with the Party's basic line of centering on the economic construction, upholding the Four Cardinal Principles and sticking to the reform and opening-up, preserve and strengthen their political consciousness, advanced nature, and orientation toward the people, unswervingly pursue the trade union development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, promote the implementation of basic guidelines of wholeheartedly relying on the working class, fully perform their social functions and, while maintaining the overall interests of the people of the whole country, seek better ways to reflect and protect the specific interests of the workers, rally and mobilize nationwide workers to start undertakings through arduous efforts and self-reliance, uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, and strive for the formation of a comprehensive well-off society, the building of China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, powerful, democratic, civilized and harmonious, and the realization of Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The Chinese trade unions are willing to uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China, undertake the political responsibility of uniting and guiding the workers to follow the instructions and guidance of the Party, to consolidate and expand the class foundation and mass base of the Party's governance.
The basic duty of the Chinese trade unions is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the workers and to serve the workers wholeheartedly.
The Chinese trade unions shall work in accordance with the overall plan for promoting all-round economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress and the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, promote innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development, focus on the dominant theme of labor movement that promotes the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, promote the spirit of model workers, labor and craftsmanship, mobilize and organize workers to take an active part in the development and reform and to actively promote the development of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization; represent and organize workers to take part in the governance of the State and social affairs and in the democratic management of enterprises, public institutions and State organs; educate workers to practice socialist core values and to constantly improve their ideological and ethnical qualities and their scientific and cultural levels, so as to promote the development and reform of the industrial workforce, to build up a contingent of well-educated and self-disciplined workers with high ideals and moral integrity and to continuously develop the progressive characteristics of working class.
The Chinese trade unions shall be committed to taking loyalty to the Party's cause and serving the workers wholeheartedly, adhere to the working policy of being organized and safeguarding rights, preserve the concept of protecting workers' rights in an active, law-based, and scientific manner, promote improvement of socialism labor laws, protect the economic, political, cultural and social rights of the workers, take participation in the coordination of the labor relations and the social interest relations, strive to constitute harmonious labor relations, promote the high-quality economic development and long-term stability of the society, maintain the unity of the working class and trade unions, so as to make contributions to building a harmonious socialist society.
The Chinese trade unions shall safeguard the socialist state power of the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance, assist the people's governments in perform their duties, and give play to the role of democratic participation and social supervision in accordance with the law.
In enterprises and public institutions, the Chinese trade unions shall, based on the principles of promoting the development of enterprises and public institutions and safeguarding the rights and interests of workers, support the administrative authorities in exercising their administrative power according to law, organize workers to participate in democratic management and democratic supervision, establish a consultation system with the administrative departments of such enterprises and public institutions, safeguard workers' lawful rights and interests, motivate workers and promote the development of enterprises and public institutions.
The Chinese trade unions practice the principle of combining union organizations formed along the industrial line with those formed on the locality basis, and uphold the system of democratic centralism.
The Chinese trade unions shall persist in building themselves with the spirit of reform and innovation, establish a working system with extensive connections and serving workers, enhance the functions of solidarity and education, safeguarding rights and interests, and serving workers, persist in the people-oriented approach and democratization, maintain close ties with the masses and members and rely on them to carry out the trade union work. The leading bodies of trade unions at various levels shall persistently place the priority of their work on the grassroots, make efforts to expand coverage and increase representation, focus on strengthening service awareness and improving the capability to protect rights, make efforts to strengthen team building and improve guarantees, adhere to the work lifeline of serving the workers and the masses, serve the grassroots and workers wholeheartedly, build smart trade unions, enhance the attractiveness, cohesion, and combat effectiveness of grassroots trade unions, build more dynamic and powerful trade union organizations, making them become learning- and service-oriented, and innovative "home of workers" that is deeply trusted by workers and the masses.
The enterprises and public institutions established by trade unions shall maintain their public warfare and service-oriented nature, adhere to serving the reform and opening-up and the development of social productive forces, serving the masses and workers, and promoting the cause of the labor movement.
The Chinese trade unions shall make efforts to consolidate and develop the worker-peasant alliance, maintain the broadest patriotic united front, and strengthen the great unity of the people of all nationalities throughout the country, including the compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, Taiwan compatriots, and overseas Chinese, with a view to promoting the reunification of the motherland and making it prosperous and strong.
In international affairs, the Chinese trade unions shall uphold the principles of maintaining the independence, respecting each other, seeking common points while reserving difference, strengthening cooperation and solidifying friendships and, on the basis of independence, equality, mutual respect and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, extensively establish and develop friendly relations with the international trade union organizations and those of various countries, actively participate in the Belt and Road initiative, enhance the friendship between working class of China and that of other countries, and play a role in promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and strive for the world peace, development, cooperation and workers' rights and interests as well as social progress, together with the workers and trade unions all over the world.
The Chinese trade unions shall implement the general requirements of Party building in the new era, take the Party's political building as the command, comprehensively strengthen Party building, enhance "Four Consciousnesses" which are maintaining political integrity, thinking in big-picture terms, following the leadership core, and keeping in alignment, remain firmly confident in the socialist path, theory, system, and culture, resolutely uphold the core position of the General Secretary Xi Jinping on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and resolutely uphold the Central Committee's authority and its centralized and unified leadership, and maintain a high degree of unity with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in ideology, politics and action.
Chapter I Membership
Article 1 Membership of trade unions is open to all manual and mental workers, irrespective of their nationality, race, gender, occupation, religious belief, or educational level, in enterprises, public institutions, State organs and other social organizations within the territory of China on condition that they rely on wages or salaries as their main source of income or establish labor relationships with employers and accept the Constitution of the Chinese Trade Unions.
Article 2 For admission to the Chinese trade unions, the worker shall submit an application voluntarily, which will be approved by a grassroots trade union committee, whereupon a membership certificate will be issued to the applicant.
Article 3 Trade union members enjoy the following rights:
1.
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