Unison is currently representing up to 100 Connexions staff in redundancy negotiations in England in the run-up to the April deadline when local authorities will take over the running of the advice and guidance service.
The majority of the cuts are proposed in administrative and managerial positions, including cuts to staff with specialist knowledge.
Jon Richards, senior national officer at Unison's Education Workforce Unit, said: "Local authorities think they can just shift around administrative staff and get away with it. But they have overlooked the fact that often these positions are quite technical and require a different set of skills."
Richards also said that as well as cuts to administrative staff, councils in areas with serious financial deficits were cutting back on frontline staff.
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