HCMC workers’ moral is high after returning from their Tet holiday break.
Work resumed on February 22 or the ninth day of the lunar New Year, at the Mechanical and Industrial Construction Company (IMECO)’s plant in Thu Duc District, with about 200 male employees dressed and keen to work.
The plant director Nguyen Van Canh said that this year, most of the workers were happy to return to work after a lengthy10 day break.
The plant is rushing to complete the chimneys worth US$1 million for Nhon Trach power plant on schedule.
Meanwhile, workers at Viettronics Tan Binh Joint Stock Company (VTB) were adding final touches to 500 computers ready for delivery this month.
A female employee of the company Kim Phuong said most workers were keen to start the year’s work and hoped that there would be a lot of orders.
The same day, deputy general director of the Saigon Transportation Mechanical Corporation (Samco) Tran Quoc Toan said that 100 percent of workers and staff of the company had returned to their jobs.
The company is focusing on recruitment to manufacture buses and other vehicles for customers in HCMC, Mekong Delta provinces of Tien Giang and Dong Thap and the northern province of Yen Bai.
On February 23, Samco negotiated with Cambodian partners to continue an export contract, he said.
There would be a decrease in orders for Vietnam’s mechanical industry this year so companies should do more marketing overseas and domestically, IMECO chairman Bui Quang Hai, who is also deputy chairman of HCMC Mechanics Association said.
