STEELWORKERS travelled to the Senedd today with their campaign to save jobs at the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot.

The three steel trade unions — Community, Unite and the GMB — met Welsh Labour Senedd members, who pledged their support to save jobs in Wales and keep one of the two blast furnaces open.

Tata Steel has said it will close both blast furnaces with the loss of 2,800 jobs and ignored trade union plans to save the production of primary steel in Britain, instead building a new electric arc furnace to recycle steel.