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POA National Chair, Mark Fairhurst gives evidence at the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, Tuesday 14 January 2025

In this new year message, national chair Mark Fairhurst looks forward to 2025 being the year when POA members are heard with increasing clarity on a range of issues including pay, changes to the Open estate regime, and the in-sourcing of contracted-out building maintenance work, alongside long-running campaigns on “68 is too late”, the right to strike and creating a safer working environment. K...

A Christmas message from the National Chair

General Secretary Steve Gillan introduces speakers at an event in Parliament held last month to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the removal of prison officers’ right to take industrial action and to urge support for the union’s ongoing campaign for this right to be restored throughout the UK, as it has already been in Scotland. Those participating include National Chair Mark Fairhurst, TUC ...

NEC member Jackie Marshall, former National Chair John Boddington MBE and Paul Evans from Bradford City Council talk about the origins and enduring importance of this much-loved annual event, which keeps memories alive of those lost and injured in the tragic fire at Bradford City FC in May 1985.

The POA, like 33 other unions in the UK and Ireland, is affiliated to ⁠Justice For Columbia⁠. In this episode, we explore what that relationship means in practice, the vital difference it makes to the POA's counterparts in Colombia, and why the struggles faced in the UK and Colombia are much closer to each other than people may think. All information correct as of September 2024. More informati...

See POA General Secretary Steve Gillan on BBC Breakfast discussing the dangers posed by the increasing numbers of drones being used to smuggle drugs, phones and other illicit items into prisons

POA Parliamentary Reception - Trade Unions Rights !

Following the removal, in 1994, of the right to strike in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Prison Service Pay Awards have been recommended to government by a Pay Review Body. In this episode GS Steve Gillan and AGS Andy Baxter look at whether this so-called "compensatory mechanism" is a fair alternative, how the POA interacts with it to try and get the best for members, and the union's c...

Tribute to Joe Simpson

Watch POA National Chair, Mark Fairhurst, on BBC Breakfast, talking about the early release scheme and prison overcrowding

Watch POA General Secretary, Steve Gillan on Talk TV discussing the current prison crisis

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The POA campaign to restore trade union rights at Labour Party Conference 2024

Steve Gillan on Channel 4 News discussing the future of prisons in the UK

A POA delegation attended the TUC National Congress in Brighton - 8th-11th September 2024

#51 - The importance of reporting accidents and near-misses

National Chair Mark Fairhurst addresses the crisis in our prisons

TUC 2024 POA Assistant Gen Sec Andy Baxter seconding Motion 60 -Prisons are full but so is probation

POA General Secretary, Steve Gillan interviewed on GB News regarding prisoner releases

TUC 2024, POA National Chair, Mark Fairhurst, moving Motion 03 to repeal Section 127

TUC Congress 2024, POA Vice Chair Dave Todd Seconding Motion 70 on Prison Education

TUC Congress 2024, POA General Secretary Steve Gillan, moving Motion 46 on Mental illness in prisons

#50 - Retired Members go from strength to strength

TUC 2024: Geoff Willetts Seconds Motion 57 - Freedom to speak up: protections for NHS whistleblowing

National Chair reacts to Estonian prisons idea

National Chair discusses the current crisis the Prison Service faces

Retired Members Northwest inaugural Meeting

POA National Chair, Mark Fairhurst interviewed on BBC Breakfast about the prisoner spaces crisis