Union Threatens Escalated Action Over Tata Steel Plant Job Losses

A union has threatened to escalate industrial action over planned job losses at steel giant Tata. Members of Unite are already going to ban overtime and begin a work-to-rule later this month in protest at the closure of blast furnaces at Port Talbot in South Wales. The union said it’s now preparing to escalate industrial action after Tata responded with a threat to cut redundancy pay. Earlier this year, Tata announced it would shut down its two blast furnaces as part of its £1.25 billion decarbonisation plan. The company plans to transition to low-carbon steel production, using an electric arc furnace which makes steel from scraps instead of from scratch, but the plan is expected result in over 3,000 job losses, including 2,800 over the coming year and another 300 in the long-term....