About 100,000 civil servants will go on strike on 1 February over pay, jobs and conditions - but the government has said their call for a 10% pay rise is unaffordable.
A meeting between civil servants' unions and the government was a"complete farce" so they will go ahead with their strike, union leaders said.
On Wednesday, the Public and Commercial Services union announced its 100,000 members, from 124 government departments,It will be the largest civil service strike for years, after some sectors took action over Christmas, and coincides withannounced on Tuesday in response to newly proposed government legislation.
There was hope a meeting between the PCS, the FDA union and the Prospect union and Cabinet Office Minister Jeremy Quin on Thursday would stave off action but it broke down without any agreement so the strike will go ahead.The PCS union is calling for a 10% pay rise, protections to pensions and protections from job cuts.
Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said:"This meeting was a total farce. Despite being well-trailed by the government as a chance to resolve the crisis, it was nothing of the sort because the minister had nothing to offer. "He didn't deny our members were being offered less than anyone else, he didn't deny tens of thousands of our members only get a pay rise because of the rise in the national minimum wage but he refused to give us a pay rise now."
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