Commenting on Osborne’s letter to public sector workers asking them to find ways to save money, UNISON General Secretary said:
“The government has made procurement specialists redundant – the very people whose job it is to find ways to reduce costs – so it is unfair now ask those who remain to do what is a full time job. The cuts to public spending have put services under a huge strain and it is thanks to the hardworking staff that services are still running. Many have to put in extra hours and work more for less. Instead ofacknowledging this is extra effort the government announced four more years of pay freezes and is now asking workers to find ways to cut budgets even more.”
