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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson

Tata Steel to begin Port Talbot job cuts within months, say unions

A roll of coiled steel leaves the coil box on the steel production line at the Tata Steel Port Talbot works in south Wales on 15 August 2023.
About 3,000 jobs are expected to be lost across Tata’s 8,000-strong UK workforce as a result of the shift to less labour-intensive electric arc furnaces. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images

Workers at the vast Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales will be made redundant within months as part of a plan to secure its future while cutting thousands of jobs, unions have warned.

At a meeting between bosses at Indian conglomerate Tata, which owns Britain’s biggest steelworks, and union representatives in London, plans to make large-scale redundancies in “months rather than years” were discussed, sources said.

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