Responding to announcements by the Government and the Conservative Party on capping public-sector pay and imposing pay freezes, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) claims this is damaging to the morale of staff in the sector, at a time when people need their services the most.
The union also criticised the Conservative Party for engaging in "a Dutch auction" with the Government over who can cut the most jobs in the public sector.
Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: "This is a scandalous attempt by both the Conservatives and the Government to outmanoeuvre one another on public-sector pay and job cuts. It is playing politics with people's lives and the services we all rely on.
"Civil and public servants, who do everything from helping people back into work to collecting the taxes to pay for schools and hospitals, are doubly disadvantaged because their pay rises have to include cost-of-living increases as well as pay progression for length of service and performance.
"Rather than playing the disgraceful political game of who can be the toughest, the Government and the Conservatives should be dealing with the gross unfairness and inequality of pay in the civil service and its related bodies.
"Spending cuts are not inevitable. If those in the City and boardrooms who caused the financial crisis paid the £100 billion in tax which they currently avoid, the need for cuts would disappear."
