The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) is expressing concern over the sit-down strike by the Teachers and Workers Union (TEWU) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) which started on 20 January, 2012 over delayed payment of salary arrears. According to the students' body, such labour actions, invariably, tend to punish innocent students. Already, libraries and lecture halls have been shut from students, which impede smooth academic learning, especially since the semester just began. A NUGS press release on Monday said students are growing disillusioned with the way Ghana's national leaders treat the educational sector with insensitivity. It therefore, among others, called on the TEWU leadership at the KNUST to exercise some patience and restraint in the way they are handling their sit-down strike. “We are also calling on TEWU members of KNUST to call off their strike for the semester’s work to begin by Tuesday, 31 January, 2012 and use other congenial means to drum home their demand to the Mills administration". NUGS is further urging Government to listen to the grievances of the striking workers before the situation deteriorates. NUGS claims to have information suggesting TEWU members in the other universities may be joining the KNUST strike action when they start their respective semesters.