Thousands of workers at Britain’s biggest steelworks in Port Talbot have been left in limbo after the plant’s owner delayed an announcement on job cuts that was expected to cause as many as 3,000 posts to be lost from the UK workforce.
The Welsh town, which grew up around the steelworks, had been braced for confirmation of the closures of the two blast furnaces after a meeting of the Tata Steel board on Wednesday, in what would have marked the beginning of a major retrenchment in UK steelmaking.
