News Room

Welcome to the POA News room, find all the latest updates, including POA Circulars, Press releases, articles and Breaking news.

Our campaign to repeal Section 127 of the Criminal Justice Public Order Act 1994 was launched at the TUC with a motion which was unanimously approved by all trade unions who were present.

The POA welcome the publication of the employment rights bill as a step forward for workers but has said it has done nothing to address the rights of Prison Officers, who have been denied the right to strike since 1994, and denied the right to take any form of industrial action since a permanent injunction was imposed on the POA in 2019.

If you still pay tax, even if it’s just on your pension, there’s a fairly high chance you may have paid too much.

 

The city was awash with colour and noise as the LGBTQ+ community – including POA members – took to the streets for their annual celebration

 

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 25th September 2024 for your information.

 

We would like to give you an update from the Retired Members Committee, as well as information on some of the benefits available to you from the POA.

 

It’s a full-on role – from campaigning on behalf of members and ensuring their voices are heard, to reading policy documents and attending enquiries

 

The atrocities we have recently witnessed in Southport, committed by a 17-year-old ‘child’, should remind us all that – at times of despair and destruction – we need each other for support and should be united in our response. 

Jackie Marshall NEC talks about the importance of cervical screening

 

A giant of a trade unionist, a respected, compassionate, knowledgeable man, and a friend

 

Representing over 30,000 Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, the POA is the largest UK Union in this sector, able to trace its roots back more than 100 years.