The civil service is no stranger to job cuts, pay freezes and budget reductions under the CONDEM government who continue destroying public services.
Public sector employment fell by 132,000 jobs in 2010, with 45,000 jobs lost in the last three months.
The consumer price index (CPI) is running at a 30-month high of 4.5%, and retail inflation at 5.2%. Civil servants whose pay has been frozen face a substantial erosion in their living standards. Pay comparability data from the Cabinet Office shows that pay rates for senior staff are now between 21.7% and 97.6% lower than for comparable jobs in the private sector.
The CODEM government ripped up the civil service redundancy agreement; even though the High Court ruled against them twice.
Now Pensions are being attacked, with previously negotiated deals being unilaterally ripped apart, by a government that is hell bent on destroying public services, throwing hundreds of thousands of public sector workers on the dole and condeming them to poverty pensions.
