The Executive Secretary of the Trades Union Congress is blaming the seeming lack of appropriate mandate by state institutions to effectively manage labour issues in the country. Kofi Asamoah said without the appropriate mandate, institutions lack the power to negotiate salaries between the employers and the employees. His concerns follow a myriad of labour agitations in the country. Just a day after teachers ended a one week strike, doctors, university teachers have all threatened to go on strike if the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission fails to address their grievances. The labour unrests have been inimical to the activities of government with the president often distracted and made to intervene. President John Mahama's last intervention led to the suspension of the strike by the teachers and TEWU. Labour experts have been disappointed with the constant intervention by the presidency in resolving the crisis. Mohammed Affum a former employee of the Labour Commission is convinced the business of labour negotiation must be left for the Labour Commission with little or no interference by the government. Whilst agreeing in part that the president must not meddle in labour issues, Kofi Asamoah told Joy News at some point the government or the president may be forced to intervene to address serious misunderstandings in the labour front. He however cautioned state institutions to be up and doing in order to avoid the needless strikes by workers. According to him, many of the issues that get to the presidency are issues that could easily have been resolved by the appropriate state institutions but they fail to handle it as expeditiously as possible. Mr Asamoah also insisted that institutions must have the requisite mandate to negotiate, adding if the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission does not have the mandate to pay salaries it will be difficult for them to appropriately negotiate salaries between employers and employees. He added that there must be the appropriate coordination between all the different public sector workers to ensure an effective salary administration. He said the recent challenges with the Single Spine Salary Structure should not detract from the otherwise perfect public sector pay policy.