The threat by the Trades Union Congress to resort to a set of protest actions including a strike, has been described as "uncalled for" by labour unions in the manufacturing sector.

The TUC Tuesday gave government and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission a ten day ultimatum to reduce utility tariffs or face their wrath.

But General Secretary of the Federation of Labour, Abraham Koomson tells Joy News many of the labour unions are unhappy about the position taken by the TUC.

“TUC doesn’t have that mandate to go and take decisions without informing the other groupings- Civil Servant Association, Nurses NAGRAT - then you want us to undertake the threat that you have given.”

He said, for instance, the manufacturing sector has “serious crisis” and even want to declare some workers redundant, “so if you call workers in this sector to go on strike, what happens, because the employers even want to lay off workers so I don’t think it will be possible for any worker in the industry to go on strike”.

Mr Koomson said even though they all want the government to reduce utility tariffs the approach by TUC is “wrong, the approach is populist, the approach is uncalled for, the opportunistic kind of stance will not help anybody in this country”.