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Steve Gillan
HMP Barlinnie
TUC 2024 / 9 September 2024
9 September 2024
Tory austerity triggered a crisis in our jails and only a decisive break from the past can turn this around, explains STEVE GILLAN
Prison
Features / 19 August 2024
19 August 2024
Stripped of their industrial muscle and left at the mercy of ministers and management, prison officers have been pushed way beyond breaking point, warns STEVE GILLAN
The Martyrs Inn in the Dorset village of Tolpuddle
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2024 / 20 July 2024
20 July 2024
We can take inspiration from our forebears and win the repeal of anti-worker legislation and bring about fair pay and decent public services for all, says STEVE GILLAN
(left-right) Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hosts his first
Durham Miners' Gala / 13 July 2024
13 July 2024
The pressure is now on the government to deliver its promises, and that pressure is not just from the unions, but from a working class that will look to the right if things under Labour don’t markedly improve, writes STEVE GILLAN
A member of prison staff
Features / 21 May 2024
21 May 2024
Prisons should be a place for rehabilitation that keep everyone inside them safe — instead, they are little more than crowded warehouses, chronically underfunded and their staff dangerously overworked, writes STEVE GILLAN
Pirson guard brixton
TUC CONGRESS 2023 / 12 September 2023
12 September 2023
STEVE GILLAN explains why the POA is calling for a royal commission, with a wide range of voices, on the desperate state of our prisons system
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Features / 15 July 2023
15 July 2023
The rich cannot be allowed to dictate the terms of our impoverishment — the Martyrs stood up against injustice and so must we, writes Prison Officers’ Association general secretary STEVE GILLAN
POA general secretary Steve Gillan
Features / 16 June 2023
16 June 2023
Trades union councils promote working-class solidarity in local communities. STEVE GILLAN explains why all trade unions should be affiliating at local level and playing an active part promoting at national and regional levels throughout Britain and Northern Ireland
A fresh look at our prison estate
Features / 8 May 2023
8 May 2023
At the start of the Prison Officers Association annual conference in Eastbourne, general secretary STEVE GILLAN reflects on changing attitudes to what is happening behind those high walls
Prison
Features / 6 January 2019
6 January 2019
STEVE GILLAN explains why critics who say prison officers can’t be trusted with the new self-defence spray 'Pava' should try walking in the shoes of his members
Steve Gillan
TUC 2018 / 12 September 2018
12 September 2018
STEVE GILLAN previews the POA motions that will be up for debate at congress
Steve Gillan
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival ’18 / 21 July 2018
21 July 2018
Just as in 1832, the Establishment wants to deny working-class people a voice, writes STEVE GILLAN