As a critical modern industry faces meltdown caused by artificially cheap Chinese steel flooding the UK and European markets, Cameron, Osborne and Javid are caught frozen in the headlights. …Read more…
Dark day for steel
Today (Tuesday October 20) Tata steel confirmed its plan to cut 1,200 jobs in Scunthorpe and Scotland. Unite warned that this ‘dark day’ would damage steel companies and hit supply chains…Read more…
Defining moment
The crisis in the UK steel industry is a defining moment for the Conservative government. Having talked up the ‘March of the makers’ and the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ the past few…Read more…
Steel in the blood
On January 14 this year the future of steel, according to David Cameron was as follows: “We are working as hard as we can to make sure we keep steel production growing in our country….Under…Read more…
Domino effect
Steel firm Caparo Industries has today (Monday October 19) announced it is going into administration putting 1,700 jobs at risk. Unite described the news as ‘yet another hammer blow’ to jobs and…Read more…
Time ticking on UK steel
Time is ticking on the UK’s steel industry and urgent action from the government is needed, not platitudes, warned Unite following today’s (October 16) steel summit in Rotherham. Commenting on…Read more…
Steel summit: united front for action
The UK steel industry presented a united front to government ministers at the steel summit in Rotherham today (October 16). And as the coke ovens were shutting down in Redcar on Teesside the…Read more…
‘Steel heart’ strategy plea
As the business secretary Sajid Javid opens today’s steel industry summit (October 16), Unite has demanded the government “pursues an industrial strategy with a ‘steel heart’.” …Read more…
Heart of steel
Unite will be urging ministers to keep the coke ovens at Redcar burning and develop an industrial strategy with a ‘heart of steel’ at tomorrow’s (October 16) steel summit in Rotherham. The…Read more…
‘Snuffing the light out’
Unite accused the government of allowing the ‘light to be snuffed out’ on steelmaking in Teesside, following the announcement today (October 12) that coke ovens and blast furnace at the SSI Redcar…Read more…
A matter of political will
As the Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough with many, many thousands of constituents devastated by the SSI collapse, I plead with the government to consider my analysis. Now that the…Read more…
From anger to devastation
The immediate future of 3,000 workers at the SSI steelmaking plant in Redcar is up in the air after owners SSI UK went into liquidation last Friday (October 2). The move followed an…Read more…
Keep Redcar coke ovens alight
Unite urged ministers to intervene and keep the coke ovens at the Redcar steelworks warm so that production could be resumed in the future and warned that its support package for SSI steelworkers was…Read more…
‘Very, very worried’
If the government wanted to help we’d have been the first steel plant in line for it, given the position of the company,” says Unite SSI convenor Kevin Cook. “Talk about a ‘steel summit’ is one thing…Read more…
Save our steel
Unite delegate Ian Cameron (pictured front in blue shirt) spoke today (September 28) at the Labour party conference in support of UK steel, specifically calling on the government to intervene after…Read more…
Save Redcar steel
The government’s much vaunted ‘Northern Powerhouse’ risks being nothing more than empty rhetoric unless it intervenes to save the SSI steelworks in Redcar on Teesside, Unite said today (September 28)…Read more…
Steely resolve
The Redcar steelworkers were paid today, but only because the taxman fast-tracked money owed to their employers SSI iron and steel makers. And despite the possibility they won’t be paid next month,…Read more…
Rally for Redcar
SSI, Majuba Road car park, Redcar, Teesside TS10 5BJ 18:45 tonight (Thursday 24 September 2015) A rally tonight in Redcar will highlight the crisis in the UK steel industry which is…Read more…
Crisis point
Britain’s steel industry is at ‘crisis point’ warned Unite as it urged the government to step up its support for the troubled industry. The call follows today’s (September 18) decision by SSI…Read more…
‘Crucial component’ of the economy
Unite delegate Dai Bowyer spoke about the UK’s steel industry and what must be done to protect its future at the TUC conference today (Monday September 14). “Unite and Community are proud of our…Read more…