3000 jobs to go. Thank goodness the fruits of Brexit will soften the blow…. ****ing knobs!
Thank Goodness
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Two plonkers who don't know why we have to have a steel industry.
Calm down, Karen
LMIB did not blame Brexit for this at all.
LMIB said that "at least the fruits of Brexit will soften the blow (of the lost jobs)".
(He might have been being sarcastic with this observation though.............
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Not Bre*it...
The owners of Port Talbot steelworks have rejected a trade union plan designed to keep its blast furnaces running, putting nearly 3,000 jobs at risk and leaving the UK on course to become the only major economy unable to make steel from scratch.
In what one union said would be a “crushing blow” to workers and UK steelmaking, Port Talbot’s parent company, the Indian-owned Tata Steel, told workers’ representatives that it could no longer afford to continue production at the loss-making plant in south Wales while it completed a four-year transition plan to greener production.
The company, which is getting £500m from the government to help with that plan, broke the news during a summit at the five-star St James’ Court hotel in London, which is owned by the Tata Group. Under the Tata plan, which is expected to be announced formally on Friday, Port Talbot’s blast furnaces will shut down while the company builds electric arc furnaces, which make steel from recycled scrap, a greener and cheaper process.
Go Green@the Guardina
...Climate Change.
The owners of Port Talbot steelworks have rejected a trade union plan designed to keep its blast furnaces running, putting nearly 3,000 jobs at risk and leaving the UK on course to become the only major economy unable to make steel from scratch.
In what one union said would be a “crushing blow” to workers and UK steelmaking, Port Talbot’s parent company, the Indian-owned Tata Steel, told workers’ representatives that it could no longer afford to continue production at the loss-making plant in south Wales while it completed a four-year transition plan to greener production.
The company, which is getting £500m from the government to help with that plan, broke the news during a summit at the five-star St James’ Court hotel in London, which is owned by the Tata Group. Under the Tata plan, which is expected to be announced formally on Friday, Port Talbot’s blast furnaces will shut down while the company builds electric arc furnaces, which make steel from recycled scrap, a greener and cheaper process.
Go Green@the Guardina
...Climate Change.
It's certainly been blamed for the Russia Ukraine war by some on here.
And some lunatic Brexers have blamed the EU
Because it exists in Europe
And democracies would rather be members of the EU than vassal states of Putin's Russian Empire (again).
Is it because the Chinese can produce steel cheaper.
Why make your own steel if you import it ready made.
Don't the Chinese subsidise their steel manufacturers in order to undercut steel producers in other countries.
Why make your own steel if you import it ready made.
Don't the Chinese subsidise their steel manufacturers in order to undercut steel producers in other countries.
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This country (government) needs to decide and action what it wants long term.
Continual short term profits or long term investment and the training, knowledge and rewards that brings
We seem to be happy with foreign ownership and exported profits, and subsidised losses
Continual short term profits or long term investment and the training, knowledge and rewards that brings
We seem to be happy with foreign ownership and exported profits, and subsidised losses