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IN Port Talbot and Llanwern, Unite and GMB members have successfully balloted for industrial action, beginning on June 18.
The steelworkers and communities of Port Talbot and Llanwern have given a clear message to Tata Steel and the neoliberal economic policies that have destroyed industry in Britain. Enough is enough.
When the communities of the children we teach are in danger of being hollowed out, it is our responsibility as members of the wider trade union movement to not stand idly by.
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