随着中国加入WTO组织,我国经济将在更大范围和更深程度上参与国际经济合作与分工,并将步入快速发展的轨道,这对工会工作特别是维护职工劳动权益将产生重要影响。九届人大常委会审议通过的修改后《工会法》,明确了维护职工合法权益是工会的基本职能。应该看到,从过去建设、参与、教育、维护四项职能到现在维护基本职能,是对入世后工会工作的重新定位,是新时 With China’s accession to the WTO, our economy will participate in international economic cooperation and division of labor on a larger scale and at a deeper level and will move into a fast-track development. This will have an important impact on the work of trade unions, especially the safeguarding of workers’ rights and interests. The amended “Trade Union Law” considered and passed by the Standing Committee of the Ninth NPC clarifies that it is the basic function of the trade union to safeguard the lawful rights and interests of employees. It should be noted that from the past, the four functions of construction, participation, education and maintenance to the maintenance of basic functions now are to reorient the work of the trade unions after China’s accession to the WTO.