HANOI: Vietnam is expected to ratify this year the United Nations (UN) convention for the free establishment of trade unions, UN officials and diplomats say, in a move meant to cut risks of trade disputes but likely leaving some foreign companies uneasy.
The long-delayed measure would be a major formal step in the tightly controlled one-party nation where the only existing national trade union operates within the Communist Party structure, although it is unclear how and when the convention, once ratified, would be actually applied.
