The President of the University of Ghana chapter of the University Teachers Association of Ghana, UTAG, Prof Ransford Gyampo has slammed the government's posture following organised labour's insistence to carry out its strike action from Thursday, October 10.

The government on Monday, October 7, expressed surprise at labour's decision to embark on its anti-galamsey strike in a statement signed by the Information Minister, Fatimatu Abubakar.

In the view of the government, at the President's high-level meeting with organised labour last week, it put forward a number of steps to meet their demands and thus found their position now to be surprising.

But speaking on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on Tuesday, Prof.