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Unite has joined forces with Lincolnshire DIY punk promoters Collaborate and Listen to put on Steel Town Punks, a day of live punk music to raise the profile of Unite’s Support Our Steel campaign. The promoters have pulled out all the stops to bring together seven bands covering a range of styles including Oi, folk-punk […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham marched with Unite steel members this week (June 27) in Westminster to warn MPs and ministers that the time for talking is over and immediate action is required by the government to secure the long-term future of the UK’s steel industry. From hospitals to defence, Unite has said it is […]
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The steel industry and unions have welcomed an eleventh-hour U-turn from the government on trade protections for UK steel. But Unite said that with the extension of tariffs on certain steel products…Read more…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has two days to enact steel industry safeguards that will prevent a flood of below cost imports wrecking the sector, Unite, the UK’s leading steel and manufacturing…Read more…
Speculation has emerged that Tata is in talks with the UK government to replace the plant’s blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces as a condition of its investment in the site.
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Trade unions, including Unite, stressed today (10 January) that for British Steel to be successful it must retain “high quality jobs” after a meeting with Jingye, the preferred bidder for the…Read more…
Unite delegate Mick Joyce addressed Congress on the 4,000 workers at British Steel and 400 workers at the Tata Orb works in Newport who are fighting for their futures – saying the industry should be…Read more…
Unite said it would fight for every job and demanded that there would be no compulsory redundancies from Tata Steel after the steel maker announced the closure of its Orb electrical steels base in…Read more…
A number of EU tariffs designed to block dumping of cheap, inferior goods from countries such as China will be maintained in the UK post-Brexit, the government announced this week. Cheap…Read more…
The UK government is failing to support the domestic steel industry through public procurement, as the government’s own figures published this week have shown. Less than half of the steel the…Read more…
Unite delegate and steel worker Mark ‘Pasty’ Turner spoke in support of a motion on Tuesday (September 11) on steel as he highlighted the latest threats to the industry since Unite’s initial…Read more…
The prospect of a potential global trade war came to the fore this week when US president Donald Trump confirmed the US would impose substantial steel and aluminium tariffs on EU imports. The…Read more…
US president Donald Trump sparked fears of a global trade war after he announced his intention to slap hefty across-the-board tariffs on imported steel – a move that would be devastating for the…Read more…
“Parasitic” financial advisors have “shamelessly bamboozled” British Steel pension scheme members, according to MPs who have warned of “another major mis-selling scandal” conducted under the noses of…Read more…
The last couple of years have been very rocky for Britain’s steel industry, as the UK’s major players – including Tata, SSI and Caparo – announced sell offs, shut downs and redundancies. There…Read more…
German steel company Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel today (September 20) announced that they had taken the first step in merging their European operations after signing a memorandum of understanding…Read more…
Mark Turner, Unite rep from Port Talbot steel works, has campaigned tirelessly alongside his union to save Britain’s steel industry. “Our steel industry has weathered one of the greatest…Read more…
Tata Steel has today (August 11) announced that it has signed the documentation for a Regulated Apportionment Arrangement (RAA) with the Trustee of the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS). …Read more…
On its first anniversary British Steel, which took over Tata’s Scunthorpe steelworks last year, has given workers a 5 percent stake in the business after returning a profit of £47m. Unite…Read more…
Tata Steel announced yesterday (May 16) an outline agreement on how it would restructure its pension scheme. It pledged to pump £550m into the British Steel pension scheme and would also give…Read more…