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All steelworkers deserve protection – why not at Port Talbot?
LUKE FLETCHER pours scorn on Labour’s betrayal of the Welsh steel industry, where the option of nationalisation was sneered at and dismissed – unlike at Scunthorpe where the government stepped in
Tata Steel in Port Talbot, as the last blast furnace at one of the biggest steelworks in the world shuts down, September 30, 2024
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IN SEPTEMBER 2023, it became clear — as many of us had feared — that the UK government’s backroom deal with Tata Steel would come at a devastating cost: 3,000 job losses, with Port Talbot set to bear the brunt.
On January 19 2024, the worst was confirmed, and fears became fact.
The decision, made with chilling indifference, has devastated thousands of skilled, unionised workers and communities that have sustained the Welsh economy for generations. The damage doesn’t end at Port Talbot’s boundary. Workers from Bridgend and the Vale to Swansea and Carmarthen were cast aside.
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