NSW minister defends outsourcing road jobs

OUTSOURCING maintenance on Sydney roads will provide the NSW government with the "best bang for our buck", says NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay.

The government is preparing a business plan to outsource maintenance of most Sydney roads to the private sector.

Mr Gay on Thursday said the government indicated some time ago it would press ahead with the plan and held talks with the Australian Workers Union (AWU) this week.

He said the private contractors would need to provide ongoing employment for hundreds of Roads and Maritime Service (RMS) workers.

"They certainly have to provide employment for the people if they wish to be employed and that's a guarantee for two years," Mr Gay told reporters in Sydney.

"We want to provide the best roads for this state and we want to get the biggest bang we can for our buck so we're heading down that track.

"It's early days, we still have to develop a business case and put that before cabinet."

Mr Gay said the government believed the proposal was a "good one and a fair one" and would deliver government savings of up to 20 per cent.

But the AWU believes the plan will disadvantage motorists and cause traffic chaos.

"The biggest losers of this recommendation will be motorists and the taxpayers of NSW," AWU NSW state secretary Russ Collison said in a statement on Thursday.

"RMS employees provide a public service and respond to emergency situations that are different every day.

"Cutting back service levels in road maintenance... will inevitably leave Sydney motorists stuck in gridlock."

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