Negotiations for the 2020 Prison Officers Industrial Agreement will begin soon with the member survey closing in approximately two weeks. Representatives from the Negotiating Team will attend Branch meetings to discuss the results of the survey once State ...

WAPOU’s State Council has approved a donation of $20,000 to the Australian Red Cross Bush Fires Appeal on behalf of WAPOU members.   WAPOU stands in support of all the first responders and volunteers who are doing an outstanding ...

WAPOU Training and Engagement Manager Bodie Green, Secretary Andy Smith, President Ken Brown and Hakea Delegate Ben Taulanga were invited by Queensland Corrective Services to implement Stand T.A.L.R (Talk, Ask, Listen, Refer) state wide.   The t ...

This month’s Stand T.A.L.R (Talk, Ask, Listen, Refer) Ride was a huge success with a record number of prison officers, their families, members of the WA Police Union and government officials taking part in the day. In a show of solidarity more than ...

Tasmania Implementation  Andy Smith, Ken Brown and Bodie Green travelled to Tasmania to implement WAPOU’s mental health awareness training program Stand TALR (Talk, Ask, Listen, Refer) for Tasmanian Corrective Services.Over 200 corre ...

The WA Prison Officers’ Union is taking a stand on women’s equality in the workplace by sending two of our members to the Women in Male Dominated Occupations and Industries (WIMDOI) conference in November. WAPOU Industrial Officer Hsien Harper ...

On behalf of WAPOU and the Prison Officers’ Association of Australia, Bodie Green is running a national Movember competition between all Australian and New Zealand prison officers for 2019. Commissioner Tony Hassall has approved WA prison officers p ...

Hakea prison officer Kath Carroll approached WAPOU seeking support to host a Movember BBQ on Friday November 1, 2019 at the prison. WAPOU are more than happy to support Kath and the members at Hakea and will be at Hakea from 05:00 – 08:00 serving br ...

ME Bank gave a financial presentation to Wooroloo officers on October 9, 2019.  Topics included interest rates, superannuation, mortgages and investment property mortgages.  If you would like ME Bank to present at your prison, please c ...

  Acacia Industrial Agreement negotiations are progressing slowly while discussions around “safe staffing” are taking place. The recent decision relating to personal leave (10 days) is also holding up progress. Currently in dispute regar ...

THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS WERE DISCUSSED AT THE SEPTEMBER STATE COUNCIL BY BRANCH DELEGATES; Acacia Prison Experiencing similar problems to the rest of the state but dealing with them under the corporate system is very different Director replaced – Br ...

  2019 WAPOU Scholarships The 2019 Scholarship Programme, which comprises of 40 scholarships to the value of $250.00 each, is now open for WAPOU members. Who Is Eligible? All financial members of the Union who are parents and have a dependant child ...

As per the requirements of s265 (5) (b) of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 and in accordance with Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Regulations 2009, the General Purpose Financial Report for the 30th June 2019, Committe ...

This video, which was first shown at our 2019 Awards Night, 21 June 2019, provides a look back at the events for the previous 12 months for WAPOU. ...

The Department of Justice launched “Operation Night Shift” in 2018 as a mechanism to proactively identify misconduct among Prison Officers. The objective was to review archived CCTV camera footage from night shifts across the Corrective Servic ...