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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hayden Vernon and agency

Tata to close Port Talbot plant early due to strike action

Tata steel production plant in Port Talbot, Wales
Tata steel production plant in Port Talbot, Wales. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Tata Steel has told workers it could to cease operations at its steel plant in Port Talbot months earlier than planned because of a strike.

The company had been planning to shut down one of the blast furnaces by the end of June and the second one by September. But workers at the south Wales site have been told that Tata plans to cease operations at both furnaces no later than 7 July because of the strike by members of Unite, which starts the following day.

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