Government using civil service as a political football
14 May 2008
The union branded the remarks contradictory, warning that delivery of the legislative programme outlined in the rest of the statement would be undermined and jeopordised.
The union went on to warn that the government was putting public service delivery at risk by contradicting its own advice that to go further than the Gershon review would damage public services.
Responding, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: “Rather than trying to outflank the Tories on public sector cuts, the government should listen to its own workforce which knows the damage that crude headcount reductions are having on the delivery of vital services such as tax and welfare delivery.
"In contradicting its own advice on so called efficiency, the government is jeopardising the rest of the draft legislation by failing to recognise that you need civil and public servants to deliver it.
“These latest remarks will further damage morale amongst a workforce already battered and bruised by job cuts and a public sector pay policy that entrenches poverty pay by penalising some of the lowest paid in the public sector. The government needs to stop using the civil service as a political football and start listening to its own workforce.”
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