Tata Steel confirms plans to close furnaces at Port Talbot | ITV News
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2024
- Tata Steel has confirmed plans to close both blast furnaces at its biggest UK plant, putting nearly 3,000 jobs at risk.
Most of the cuts will be at Port Talbot in south Wales, with about 2,800 roles potentially affected, with 2,500 jobs lost in the next 18 months.
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Brexiteers said leaving the EU was necessary to protect the steel industry. Port Talbot should invite the Brexiteers to the closing ceremony to look the workers in the eyes.
Nah thry just wamtred the immigrants to stop, sadly it went into overdrive
Jesus you people think EVERYTHING is because of BREXIT, why don't throw climate change in there while your at it.
It's not brexit.its the green wokes in Westminster.
They forced Tata steel to go net zero.
False the reason is because producing steel in UK is simply too expansive
@@jhonnydiamondoveradded by net zero..voila
On the surface yes, what they really mean by net zero is "we got rid of the old machines and got newer more automated ones" The company gets to cut jobs it doesn't need and the government get to claim they are helping the environment.
If they were just honest and said we are modernizing the plant we just don't need that many people anymore and the government invested some money to create new jobs it would be fine. Bu instead they make it about how green they are so they don't have to do any work. Soo much for leveling up.
@@jhonnydiamondFalse. It's not expensive for Tata(yes it's more expensive than other countries because of failing UK economy but it's just one minor reason). Tata had no issues until net zero imposition.
@@phoenixj1299
You might want to take a look at their accounts over the last ten years before embarrassing yourself with such total bollocks. It’s been knackered for years, fk all to do with net zero.
brtishers blamming it on india wow your failed policy has let this happen there is no cheap energy and more on brexit you want russia war you want sanctions dont cry wound would be on both side
Oh dear India investing with China now 😢
British tears.. absolutely stunning
@@stuartcook7362get over it bhai
Still not mentioning Brexit are they? 🤣
in UK we call it the B-word. It's a hate crime to mention it in relation to anything that is not improving
Very sad story this whole situation with people loosing their jobs in deprived areas .been happening years and government wonders why lots of people on benefit
Forced A Company for Net Zero and to invest Billions...I mean Business management are not bunch of fools...They will take action eventually 😂😂😂😂😂
What has gone wrong with briton it was once great
The Tories!
@csharpe5787 no feckin Labour started the ball rolling mate
We voted conservative..and the icing on the cake was Brexit
@@michaelmoran1964 Ah yes the people who have hardly been in power are at fault, not the guys who have been in power for over a decade.
and then they voted brexit
I bet Port Talbot will be greener from now on. Brexit brought clear air at least.
Nothing to do with BREXIT its the Green agenda.
Yeah clean air with no employment and necessary needs and poverty nice development by government 😂
@@_getwet_-qj1ri they can go fishing.
Another one of those brexit benefits....
its net zero.
Really is tata steel... but seriously wish the employees well and sucess with getting new work!
Wales ‚20miles 😂😂😂😂 per hour welcome to the net zero
Weclome to the brexit
End Net Zero!
Stop forcing people to bay electric cars!!!!!!
Our both either nutters or bots.
It's brexit
Steel jobs are surviving in mainland Europe. Net zero isn't the problem here.
@@stevewilliams2691 no its NOT
Tata then, more unemployment!
prime minister must make solution for the closer,bussinesman invest money to earn money not waste money,,there is capital investment issue.
Where is this just transition politicians like to often quote? Is there any plan for it at all or is there some sort of naive hope that all these workers can be redeployed to local well paying jobs if we just send them on a CV writing course? Contrast this with recent other reports saying we are falling well behind in decarbonising our energy supply (ie clean energy projects being started and commissioned). I'm willing to be we could get loads of new industries into placed like Port Talbot if the gov would wake up and smell the coffee and realise you cant just take livelihoods away without providing a sustainable alternative. Can we not make Wales a centre of excellence in composites manufacture or robotics or something. Where is the seed funding to make this happen?
i think its great fress air
So the steel workers have in effect, contributed to their own job losses though their taxes being used in the £500m that the Gov is giving to this foreign company to enable them to get rid of them. Utterly sickening.
So 3000 Men and women loose their jobs in Wales, but more jobs are created elsewhere like China which is reported to open on average 2 coal fired power plants per day.
These valleys and communities of south Wales will be decimated by this and become unrecognisable in years to come. The fall out and collateral damage caused by this senseless move will by immense.
We still need virgin steel and will be totally reliant (yes again) on foreign supply and have no control over its cost. Just the same as when the mines were shut. This is history repeating itself.
Government is a disgrace
No..these people voted for this.
Port Talbot is a conservative area and voted Brexit...simples
All because of this stupid net zero.
No it's brexit
What else you expect from net zero government is out of mind.
They are also a brexit gov
If you import cheap steel from Europe then what you expect
You gonna blame immigrants or corporate greed due to capitalist governments?
He feels like his future has gone 😂 no working class man has a future different to the other man working next to him, work, miserable wife and snotty kids.
I belive Tata must come out with Something and save those 3,ooo job because time is bit Hard
and even the British Government must impose huge senction on imported steel that only can save these Jobs
Thank You Jeremy Corbyn and Labour
You do realize that the Tories have been in power for the last 13 years, right?
Jeremy Corbyn was never in power..Tell us more about your dementia.
What did Corbyn do?
Imagine being thick enough to blame this on a bloke who never got into power, and a party who hasn’t been in power for 14 years.
@@beezergutler5488 never in power but worth £20 million, not bad for a Commie , you must be related
They'll get clean and fresh air at the cost of losing their jobs🤦🏼
Very good move Tata
Why, what is wrong with you? Those are real people with families
@@kunalincredible we don't care did you forget what they did with us
No doubt rushi and his billionaire family have massive investments in the Indian owned tata and have helped push this through why else would the uk government give a company £500 million investment for them to get rid of half the workforce
Exactly
Otherwise they would lose all the workforce.
Tata invested 2B every year into uk, .5 b once a while is not much.
Also, there aren't any other plants, there isn't any industry
Lmao, Rishi family have zero investment in Tata.
They have investments in TATAs direct competitors
Then close the plant if have guts
British heavy industry doesn't exist anymore. We have lost it to China.....Oh, and just to remind everyone, China are in the process of building a chain of coal fired power stations.
This is devastating for the town of Port Talbot, for South Wales and the UK.
Britain's net zero policy is already one of the lowest in the western World.
Sunak and his his Indian pals are trying to have their way... but it won't end well.
Don't drag India in this mess, both of your Labour and Tory are incompetent lapdogs to the US and virtue signalling policies like Net Zero.
I cant balme Sunak.
He isnt the true PM he took lizz truss jobs
And those plants won’t have the same emissions standards. There’s a balance between the loss of quality of life from industrial pollution and poverty and crime from a lack of jobs and industry.
The bankers and middle managers that run the country aren’t interested in manufacturing or industry. Unfortunately.
We will just import more steel that’s been made with a heavier cost to the environment and workers. Pat ourselves on the backs and pretend we don’t contribute to pollution or global warming.
China has been anti dumped since 2016. It’s got sod all to do with them.
British crying 😂😂😂😂
If tata is cutting of business seriously something wrong is going on with country and the indigenous people on general.
In India Tata is akin to a Government job with Corporate benefits.
Don't worry, Tata will import low quality Indian steel to replace the shut down plant
India is the second largest steel manufacturing country
India companies are providing all kind of quality steel to all sector's
Your mind set is programmed to think low about indians.
Indis is the second largest investor in Uk
Indians contributing 7% of your GDP, providing 1,50,000 jobs ,900 companies operating in UK.
be more cautious because the white race behaviour is crossing the red line
😂😂😅 true i confirm
Indian low quality still better than uk quality
Best steele producing companies in europe are owbed by indians
@@bankrupt4808 no Germany has the best steel and China
probably stage coach drivers said the same thing when the steam train was invented ?
Nationalisation has brought this upon these people, as governments spend money on hospitals and houses etc, not steel mills and blast furnaces !!!
Hence my friend, "nationalisation" has left you in the position of stage-coach driver, while the rest of the world has moved on to steam.
It isn’t nationalised though, so what point are you trying to make?
too difficult for you kids eh ? Steel, as with many other of our industries, was nationalised in the 1960's and 70's. Under nationalisation they had no investment and so fell behind and became uncompetitive. Govt sold some of these back into private ownership, but the damage had already been done. Hence, Nationalisation killed off so many industries in the UK.@@beezergutler5488
Net zero isnt great init
Nationalise port talbot
British people should vote for rejoining Brexit
Ok mate.
You can thank the conservative and labour government's we've had over the last thirty years???
All we are doing is outsourcing pollution. Production will move to countries with even lower emissions standards and worker safety. The same volume of steel will be produced.
Do you want to live in an area with jobs and slightly elevated levels of pollution - or squeaky clean air but poverty and crime.
That’s why CBAM is coming in. They’re accounting for that.
@@beezergutler5488 it’s just a tax, it won’t stop or reduce pollution or provide jobs.
@@trewjohn2001
A couple of points here then.
1) CBAM increases the cost of imports making them uncompetitive, thus making it easier for the domestic producer to control prices.
2) why do people care more about steelworkers jobs than dockers jobs? Because those dockers rely on imports.
3) As a country we rely on imports to allow us to be competitive to reexport manufactured products.
4) TATA has been run into the ground for decades, not least by undercutting their own market through the Steel Park in Wednesfield.
The mess goes far beyond a bit of pollution. It needs a change of ownership, it needs the EAF, Wednesfield needs to go and imports need to be allowed to resume.
@@beezergutler5488 sounds like someone is in the steel importing business. No vested interest then 😂😂😂
@@trewjohn2001
Someone who knows exactly what they’re talking about unlike most of the people in this comments section.
Indian unelected prime minister, Indian owned so called British steel company. Shut down your own pits providing specialist coking coal , sell off your power generating companies to the French ,Germans ,Spanish , introduce draconian rules and regulations called net zero . What could possibly go wrong ,apart from the decimation of the last remnants of your industrial base . Still we can import the steel from India manufactured in the three new blast furnaces just coming onto line .
brtishers blamming it on india wow your failed policy has let this happen there is no cheap energy and more on brexit you want russia war you want sanctions dont cry wound would be on both side
Stop crying dude
Bro your ancestors lived here in India for more than 2 century & looted all the things which your ancestors, you & your present will never ever earn collectively like wise now it's our term so take chill pill & be line cause you guys only know how to loot but we Indian's know how to earn
Islamic republic of Britain 😂😂😂
Respect other Religion!!
😂😂😂
😂
Well colour me surprised NOT
Go woke go broke... feel the brexit yet ?
this net zero is totally zero and bs !!!!!!
Army need troops
Brexiteers said leaving the EU was necessary to protect the steel industry. Port Talbot should invite the Brexiteers to the closing ceremony to look the workers in the eyes.
Does this mean no sunlit uplands?….
??? This has nothing to do with Brexit but Tata wanting to become greener which will cause job losses. These furnaces though won't be creating steel from scratch but instead recycling steel some which will be imported. Green steel is an oxymoron. Both sides of the political spectrum should agree that the blast furnaces should stay open not only for jobs but also UK strategic interests. The alternative is buying steel from China, India, USA, etc.. We should support our own steel industries. Again, nothing to do with Brexit.
Nothing to do with brexit, its net zero.
@@ecnalms851Tata wanting? R u serious?.. ur gov wants Net zero Target.. which will require tata to invest 4bn in loss making plant..while gov offering only 500million.. what a joke
@@welshhibby fun fact: tata is going to invest massively to green its facility in the netherlands in the coming decade. That is in the EU!