Climate and workers rights groups hold a demonstration outside Tata Steel HQ in London in support of steelworkers and a just transition, July 22, 2024
[© Kristian Buus / Greenpeace]
CLIMATE activists and workers groups gathered outside the headquarters of Tata Steel in London today in solidarity with steelworkers at Port Talbot in south Wales.
Mass job losses are at risk at the site but campaigners have expressed hope that under a new government, there is an opportunity to renegotiate with the company for a “fairer and greener transition to a better way of making steel that benefits both workers and the environment.”
The coalition of organisations, including Greenpeace UK, Extinction Rebellion, Friends of the Earth, War on Want and the Community trade union, has sent a letter to Labour and Tata Steel to demand a plan for a transition to greener processes that will help retain workers’ skills and preserve steelmaking capability in Britain.
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
