La più grande acciaieria del Regno Unito cesserà la produzione dopo più di 100 anni, comporterà la perdita di circa 2.800 posti di lavoro

Excerpts from [article](https://news.sky.com/story/tata-steel-uks-biggest-steelworks-to-cease-production-after-more-than-100-years-13224922) by Dan Whitehead:

*[…] Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community Union which represents most steelworkers at Port Talbot, said it was an “incredibly sad and poignant day” for the British steel industry.*

*”It’s also a moment of huge frustration – it simply didn’t have to be this way.”*

*”Last year Community and GMB published a credible alternative plan for Port Talbot which would have ensured a fair transition to green steelmaking and prevented compulsory redundancies. Tata’s decision to reject that plan will go down as an historic missed opportunity,” he added.*

*[…] As well as around 2,800 job losses, many fear there will be a greater number of workers in the wider supply chain impacted.*

*Today the Welsh government announced that businesses impacted will be able to apply for funding to overcome “short-term challenges” during the transition phase.*

*[…] The giant Port Talbot steelworks will not close completely – it will continue to operate hot and cold strip mills to roll steel slab imported from overseas.*

*But it is a hugely significant day not only for the UK’s industrial infrastructure, but for a town built on steel that will no longer produce it.*

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Just sayin, the EU Green Deal would have ironically subsidized those steel works…

So let me get this right. They reject the chance to transition without any job loss in favour of stopping production for 3/4 years and the UK government paying for half of the new site and offering a transition fund for workers/businesses in the area?

There has to be something shady going on here. The government should have forced them to transition to a temporary site to prevent job losses.

Call me a cynic but I have a sneaky suspicion this is about the government meeting it’s net zero targets.

I was sure the government gave them money to stay open.

> Tata Steel is replacing the furnace with a greener electric arc furnace which will use UK-sourced scrap steel, but that will not be operational until 2028.

> The transition will cost £1.25bn, £500m of which is being paid by the British government and will lead to nearly 3,000 job losses, almost 75% of the workforce.

> Tata Steel said in a statement it was “a significant event in the history of iron and steelmaking in the UK as the legacy steelmaking assets in Port Talbot close, having reached their end of life.”

> But it said steelmaking at the site will resume in 2027/2028 thanks to its investment in “low-CO2 ‘green’ steel”, offering a “brighter, greener future”.

> The scheme will “sustain more than 5,000 jobs across the UK, and give Tata Steel businesses across the UK a competitive market advantage.”

So it’s just going to re-open in 4 years?

Is it not re opening in a few years it’s being changed right.

Tatami steel has a history of only existing because of a continuous flow of grants, tax breaks and bail-outs. After watching the similar drama’s unfold over the Redcar plant- it seemed to me, like a business which was existing solely to see how much funding it can raise and not how much business it can make. It was shown decades ago that our steel prices and wages cannot compete (even if we were still politically managed by the E.U).

Re opening in 4 years…

I’ll believe that when I see it, tata leadership are well known liars and conmen.

They brought the plant to get the patents. Ran it into the ground and now are taking out any competition to its Indian plants.

4 years time they’ll claim that energy costs are too high to reopen and will turn port talbot into a mill for there bars of steel.

More decent paying working class jobs down the drain.

IT people who lost their jobs to outsourcing

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It’s amazing just how misleading “news” headlines are. It’s a temporary closure. The majority of “losses” are voluntary redundancy. FFS, this is just willful misinformation.