POA Circulars

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 22nd January 2025 for your information.

 

The TUC have recently conducted research into the effects of night work on workers.

The Durham Miners Gala takes place on Saturday 12 July 2025. The POA have had a presence at the Gala for many years.

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

Please find attached NEC minutes for the 8th January 2025 for your information.

As a result of Assistant General Secretary Mr Mick Pimblett taking up his employed and elected post of Deputy General Secretary this has created a vacancy for an Assistant General Secretary.

A new union-backed cross-party parliamentary campaign launched by Kim Johnson (Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside) to insource prison maintenance is asking POA members to provide descriptions of the disrepair and problematic conditions in their workplaces and the impact this has on their work. 

MyCSP confirmed that the Rollback Annual Benefit Statements 2024 for members with a deferred choice underpin 2024 would not be issued.

Please find attached NEC minutes, for the 11th December2024 for your information.

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

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.