{"id":8108,"date":"2024-09-11T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2024-09-11T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T14:57:16","slug":"galamsey-organised-labour-threatens-strike-if-govt-doesnt-act-by-end-of-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=8108","title":{"rendered":"Galamsey: Organised labour threatens strike if gov\u2019t doesn\u2019t act by end of September."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organised labour has threatened to lay down their tools if the government does not take decisive action against illegal small-scale mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has set the end of September as an ultimatum for this demand to be met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement by the TUC Secretary General, the group demanded the immediate declaration of a state of emergency in galamsey-affected areas, a halt to all mining in forest reserves, the creation of special courts for prosecuting offenders, and the deployment of the military to dismantle mining equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Congress blamed the government\u2019s inaction for widespread environmental destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organised labour has threatened to lay down their tools if the government does not take decisive action against illegal small-scale mining. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has set the end of September as an ultimatum for this demand to be met. In a statement by the TUC Secretary General, the group demanded the immediate declaration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2253,2670],"class_list":["post-8108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-galamsay-2","tag-september"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8110,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions\/8110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}