Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, has urged labour associations to introduce pragmatic programmes that would improve the welfare of their members.
He gave the assurance that the leadership of the TUC would give every necessary support to any such planned programmes.
He was addressing a joint annual meeting of the Kumasi District Council of Labour, the Regional Council of Labour and the Regional Women's Committee in Kumasi on Friday.
More than 250 unionists gathered to discuss effective ways of strengthening the workers front.
Issues that came up included the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), oil and gas exploration and the
new pension scheme.
Dr Baah said there was the need for the unions to do more to educate their members on the SSSS to help them to manage their expectations, saying the pay policy was not all about increases in salaries, but to also correct inequities.
Mr Prince Asafu-Adjaye, a researcher at the Labour and Research Policy Institute of the TUC, who spoke on the exploitation of the country's gas and oil fields, said the extent to which Ghanaians would enjoy the benefit from the resource, depended on how well the accruing revenue would be managed.
The effectiveness of institutional and quality regulatory policies would also have major part to play.
Mr Joseph Omane Agyekum, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Labour Council, urged members to show active interest in union matters.
Mr Thomas Kujantira, Chairperson of the Kumasi Council Labour, advised them to ensure that they met regularly to deliberate on issues of common concern.