Tata job cuts: unions attack lack of government action
Source: The Guardian
Sean Farrell and Rob Davies
The government faced renewed calls to tackle the crisis engulfing the British steel industry after the UK’s largest steelmaker announced more than 1,000 job cuts.
Tata Steel announced plans to axe 1,050 jobs, including 750 at the UK’s largest plant in Port Talbot, south Wales, as it warned that cheap imports from China were endangering the European steel industry.
As steel manufacturers and trade unions urged ministers to step in, David Cameron said the government would continue to work with British-based steelmakers, who have now shed a combined 5,000 jobs since last summer.
Tata blamed falling global steel prices and a flood of cheap imports for the cuts and said the UK and the EUneeded to act more urgently to deal with the crisis in the industry.
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