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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Simon Goodley

Union plans to escalate action over job losses at two steelworks in Wales

The steelworks at Port Talbot, Wales
Tata rejected a trade union plan earlier this year designed to keep the blast furnaces at the Port Talbot steelworks running. Photograph: Kara Thomas/Athena Pictures

Union leaders are preparing to ramp up industrial action at two south Wales steelworks, in a further escalation of a row over almost 3,000 job losses that threatens to become a big general election issue.

Unite said such moves at the Port Talbot and Llanwern works are planned after the sites’ Indian owner, Tata Steel, threatened to cut redundancy pay as a response to members voting for an overtime ban.

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