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The sun sets Thursday December 8, 2005, over the Swan Hunter shipyard on the River Tyne
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As the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU) meets at its conference in Southport this week, they reflect on a tough year for British industry. Tory indecisiveness and disinterest in the protection of decent jobs has meant a clear absence in industrial strategy, which has led to the closures of shipyards, car plants and manufacturing works across the nation.
CSEU general secretary Ian Waddell
Founded on the initiative of the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders, who wished to create a counterbalance to the employers’ club of the National Federation of Shipbuilders and Engineers, the federation became known as the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades in December 1890.
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