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The anti-strike law and the POA, featuring Mark Fairhurst, National Chair.


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In this special bite-sized edition, National Chair of the POA Mark Fairhurst discusses two new political challenges for the union.

The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill being rushed through Parliament will directly affect the ability of those members who still have the right to strike to exercise that right, but will also cause concern for everyone else too.

And last week the government published its submission to the Prison Service Pay Review Body.  Mark explains why the government's position is simply not good enough, and what that means for how pay is determined for the POA's HMPPS membership.

As Mark says, now is the time that prison staff need their union like never before.

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