Ho, April 20, GNA - Mr Gordon Bodza, a trade unionist on Friday endorsed the creation of a Public Services Ministry as suggested by Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, Minister for Public Sector Reforms saying, it would enhance industrial management in sub-vented organizations.

Mr Bodza, Volta Regional Industrial Relations Officer of the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview. He said decisions taken by various public sector organizations, including those on incomes could be defended at cabinet level by the substantive minister of the proposed ministry under whose aegis the decisions were reached.

Mr Bodza said presently Industrial Relations Officers of sub-vented organizations go from ministry to ministry seeking audience with schedule officers in the process of negotiations for service conditions or salaries.

He said after the long, frustrating and time wasting rounds of visits, a "Chief Director somewhere cancels negotiated deals with workers for the reason that his ministry cannot contain the costs involved".

Mr Bodza said it was such bureaucracy that delayed negotiations for salary adjustments and their implementation in these organizations for months resulting in lackadaisical attitude to work by workers there. He said the proposed ministry was necessary to sustain the new processes and management practices induced into to the public sector under the reforms going on or "we would finish the reforms go back to the old ways and come seeking another round of reforms".

Mr Bodza said the Ghana TUC was networking with other unions in the sub region and other parts of the world to give it a strong basis to fight for workers rights in the country.