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CIVIL Service bosses have left union negotiators “angry and astonished” by walking out of talks aimed at resolving a long-running dispute.
For four months 50,000 members of civil servants’ union PCS have staged strikes and banned overtime over a cuts-sparked staffing crisis.
The union suspended action to allow for talks on Wednesday but PCS said management walked out on an edict from upstairs.
PCS industrial officer Peter Middleman said: “It’s clear to us that there is an agenda at large here which has its roots in the ideology of the current government rather than in good industrial relations or the interests of the tax paying public.”
