Unite which represents thousands of members in all areas of the steel industry, is urging that the government to take immediate action to stabilise the industry. Unite raised its concerns ahead of a…Read more…
‘Complete disaster’
Government “no deal” plans to provide limited protections for domestic food producers under a zero import tariff regime would still be a “disaster” for the sector, Unite has warned. The…Read more…
‘Act of economic vandalism’
Unions and business leaders have eviscerated plans to reduce import tariffs on 87 per cent of goods to zero if the UK crashes out of the EU with no deal. The plans were announced before a…Read more…
‘Managed’ no deal?
As a rudderless Theresa May drifts the country ever closer to the Brexit deadline of 29 March – risking economic disaster by crashing out of the EU – those Tories cheering calamity on have been…Read more…
Not out of the woods
The EU, including the UK, and six other countries have secured an exemption against punitive steel and aluminium tariffs on imports to the US. First announced by the Trump Administration…Read more…
Trump steel tariffs slammed
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…
British steelworkers take #SaveOurSteel message to Brussels
Steel union members from Scunthorpe, South Wales and other parts of the UK joined over 10,000 steelworkers from all over Europe to demonstrate in Brussels today against Chinese steel dumping, ahead…Read more…
Who will lose out when we leave the single market? Civitas admit it would be the UK
Today, pro-Brexit think tank Civitas has released a report saying that the EU will lose out from the increases in trade tariffs likely to result from Brexit. Even from the campaign that brought you £350m a week to spend on the NHS, this is a quite remarkably bad argument. As their own figures show,…Read more…
Leaked treaty texts confirm TTIP threatens democracy
TTIP would undermine the ability of governments to promote health and safety and protect the environment against corporate depredation…Read more…
CBI on TTIP: a policy based on faith and avoiding their critics
The CBI’s top leaders were in Brussels today along with the Prime Minister to help him put ‘rocket boosters’ under the increasingly unpopular Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA. They gathered a range of business organisations across…Read more…