Port Talbot mass sackings are ‘failure of environmental policy’, GMB leader tells TUC Congress
Workers outside Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales, as around 3,000 jobs are at risk at the plant as part of a planned restructuring, September 15, 2023
UNIONS must recognise the “failure of environmental policy” that led to the 2,500 job losses confirmed at the Port Talbot steelworks, GMB general secretary Andy Smith told TUC Congress today.
He urged unions to have the “the courage to talk about this” or the far right “will take up the cudgels,” as delegates sent solidarity to the south Wales workers as they passed a climate change motion.
Mr Smith said GMB would abstain “to find a space and a time for reflection for an honest and sober debate about these complex issues.”
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