一、维护职工的合法权益是新时期对工会提出的要求首先，维护职工的合法权益是“三个代表”重要思想的具体体现。江泽民同志关于“中国共产党始终代表中国最广大人民的根本利益”的论述，是“三个代表”思想所在。任何政党都有其阶级基础，中国共产党的阶级基础是工人阶级，我 I. Maintaining the Legitimate Rights and Interests of Staff and Workers is a Requirement for the Trade Unions in the New Period First of all, safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of employees is a concrete manifestation of the important thinking of the ’Three Represents.’ Comrade Jiang Zemin’s exposition on “the CPC always represents the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people” lies in the thinking of the “three represents.” Any political party has its class basis. The CPC’s class basis is the working class and I