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Workplace and TU campaigns / POA
25 January 2012
Victory for POA: The European Court of Human Rights have accepted the prison officers' union application for restoration of trade union rights, writes Domenico Hill.
19 January 2012
The POA are delighted that the European Court of Human Rights have accepted the Union's application for restoration of Trade Union Rights, writes Steve Gillan General Secretary of the POA stated:.
7 September 2011
The riots, Clarke and the "broken penal system"
Glyn Travis and Joe Simpson, assistant secretaries of the prison workers’ union POA set out some of the key issues in prisons following the riots
Joe Simpson
6 July 2011
Fighting pension cuts and the anti-union laws
Interview with Joe Simpson, POA assistant secretary. An important part of the action on 30 June was the well-attended lunchtime protest meetings held outside many prisons by the POA...
6 July 2011
Alan Guest, Branch Chair of the POA at Send Prison, Woking, took the morning off work to support the pickets on 30 June. He sent a message of support...
6 July 2011
Walkout at Wormwood Scrubs prison
Over 100 staff from all sections of the POA, including governors, walked out of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London, on 30 June for a lunchtime protest meeting, writes Keith Dickinson, West London Socialist Party.
22 June 2011
The national executive committee of the Prison Officers Association (POA) has announced that lunchtime pension cuts protest meetings will be held at every prison and secure hospital on 30 June...
20 April 2011
POA strike ballot: The national executive of the POA prison officers' union has decided to conduct an indicative ballot against prison privatisation...
6 April 2011
Leeds Unison - fighting the cuts
Leeds Unison local government branch, jointly with the other council unions, has recently run a consultative ballot amongst the membership. This is over the employer's cuts packages, a Leeds Unison steward writes.
4 April 2011
Birmingham prison officers determined to fight privatisation
Prison officers in the POA union at Winson Green prison in Birmingham held a protest meeting on Friday 1 April in response to the vicious privatisation plan for the prison. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist.
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