Tata Steel announces plans to cut 2,800 jobs in a blow to Welsh steel making town

[Neo]

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LONDON (AP) — Indian firm Tata Steel announced Friday it will close both blast furnaces at its plant in Port Talbot, Wales, eliminating 2,800 jobs, as part of plans to make its unprofitable U.K. operation leaner and greener.
Tata plans to switch from coal-fired blast furnaces to an electric arc furnace, which emits less carbon — and needs fewer workers — using a half-billion pound ($634 million) investment from the British government.
The company said the switch would “reverse more than a decade of losses and transition from the legacy blast furnaces to a more sustainable, green steel business.”
“The course we are putting forward is difficult, but we believe it is the right one,” Tata Steel Chief Executive T.V. Narendran said.

https://apnews.com/article/uk-tata-steel-port-talbot-wales-layoffs-64406c62c2d048b9ad3d99725b2bb0ab#

Of course “Unite the union” will endorse strike action immediately.

[Neo]

Port Talbot was primarily important to the British Navy when our wooden warships ruled the waves, it was there in Port Talbot when they smelt copper sheeting, the sheets of copper riveted to the warships hulls prevented barnacles attaching. We had the fastest warships afloat.

[teeceetx]

Sounds like the US ... the government putting people out of work to further the cause of Climate Change / Renewable energy.

Next we'll hear that Wales cannot supply enough electricity to reliably power their new electric furnaces!

[DonGlock26]

More communist climate change cult nonsense.