Unite calls on Starmer to back steel plan ahead of Labour leader's visit to Port Talbot
A general view of Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales where workers are facing huge job losses following an expected announcement by the Government about a deal to decarbonise the company's UK operations. Picture date: Friday September 15, 2023.
UNITE has called on Sir Keir Starmer to endorse the union’s strategy for saving Britain’s steel industry on his visit to Port Talbot steelworks in Wales today.
About 3,000 jobs are expected to be lost at Britain’s biggest steelworks under plans to modernise the plant as it transitions from blast furnaces to greener steel production.
The government’s pledge to invest a mere £500 million in the process with no job guarantees have been slammed as a “disgrace” by Unite, which has proposed a workers’ plan for steel.
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