All news on the topic: Save Our Steel campaign

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Tata Steel got 'deal of century' by bagging taxpayers' cash with 2,800 job cuts
Tata Steels proposals were branded the 'bargain basement option' as bosses were hauled before MPs to defend plans to shut blast furnaces at its Port Talbot plant in south Wales
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Rishi Sunak slammed for saying pleas to save more steel jobs are 'churlish'
The PM was asked by Labour MP Sarah Champion in the Commons to back an alternative plan for the town’s steelworks that would save all 8,000 at the plant while still transitioning to low carbon steelmaking
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Tata Steel worker with 11-month-old says lives will be ripped apart by job cuts
Trade union members gathered in Westminster after thousands of jobs were put at risk at the Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant in South Wales, where two blast furnaces will be closed
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Labour will force Commons vote over steel crisis as Tata Steel cuts 2,800 jobs
Tata Steel UK confirmed plans to axe up to 2,800 British jobs last week in a devastating blow to the industry - with most losses at the Port Talbot plant in South Wales
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'Tata Steel and the Tories are going to tear the soul out of our communities'
Roy Rickhuss, General Secretary of the Community Union, says the government and Tata steel have been "cheap" in their approach to saving steelmaking in Wales
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Steel chiefs blast Tory dithering that risks foreign goods being 'dumped' on UK
The Treasury has announced a carbon border adjustment mechanism so UK manufacturing firms, including in the steel industry, are not undercut by imports from foreign firms
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Scrap steel 'should stay in UK to help industry's fight against climate change'
Trade body UK Steel has published a major report calling for millions of tonnes of scrap steel to stay in the UK where it can be used boost the fight against climate change
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Plan to save thousands of jobs at Britain's biggest steel plant
The latest plan aimed at saving thousands of jobs at Britain's biggest steel plant has been put forward by the Unite union and comes after a rival proposal from the Community and GMB unions
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Union leaders back plan to save 2,300 jobs at Britain's biggest steelworks
The Community and GMB unions have thrown their weight behind a plan drawn-up by experts they drafted in, which could help save "virgin" steelmaking at Port Talbot
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Fury as UK steel firms 'pay double for electricity compared to foreign rivals'
The gulf between what French and German steel manufacturers pay compared with the costs faced by UK steel companies has been laid bare in a study by the industry's trade body
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Tory steel plans 'will create national security risk' ministers told by own MP
A Conservative MP who is vice-chairwoman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Steel has raised fears of how Britain could be left relying on foreign firms for the metal it needs
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Tories 'jeopardising national security' over steel furnace shutdown, say MPs
Business Minister Nusrat Ghani was hauled to Parliament for a grilling over plans to shut blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, which comes weeks after Tata announced a similar move at Port Talbot
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2,000 British Steel jobs at risk as Chinese-owned firm plans to axe furnace
The plant at Scunthorpe is the latest to come under the shadow of redundancies as the sector aims to slash carbon emissions by closing coal-fired blast furnaces
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British steelmaking facing 'lethal cliff edge' as thousands wait to hear fate
Labour frontbencher Stephen Kinnock, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Steel, attacked the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain's biggest steelworks
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3,000 steelworkers in limbo as Tata shelves crunch Port Talbot announcement
The Indian giant had been due to make an announcement after a board meeting in Mumbai today, but it decided to delay revealing its redundancy plans for the South Wales site
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Keir Starmer's plan to save British steel industry as thousands of jobs at risk
The Labour leader spoke to the Mirror after visiting the UK's biggest steelworks, Tata's plant at Port Talbot, South Wales, where 3,000 posts are under threat
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Tories 'risk pushing steel industry over the edge with Port Talbot deal'
The leader of the sector's biggest trade union has raised fears for its future following the controversial agreement over the plant, which will lead to 3,000 job cuts
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Tories 'playing dangerous game' over British steel for UK warships
Ministers have failed to insist that UK-produced steel is used to build a £1.6billion fleet of naval supply vessels which will restock frigates and destroyers on operations
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'Only Labour can save British steel industry from annihilation', warn workers
Shadow Business Minister Sarah Jones held talks with union officials on the margins of Labour's annual conference in Liverpool, amid fears over jobs at Port Talbot plant
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Steelworkers at Tata Port Talbot hold crisis talks with 3,000 jobs on the line
Community union’s general secretary Roy Rickhuss will hold crisis talks with staff at the South Wales factory over the deal between Tata and the Tories for electric arc production
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Blast furnace wind down at Tata Port Talbot to start 'within months'
Talks have taken place between company executives and unions involved at Britain's biggest steelworks, where 3,000 jobs are due to go under a switch to electric arc furnaces
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Tata Steel bosses set for Port Talbot showdown with unions over 3,000 job cuts
The Mirror understands executives have flown in from India for crunch talks with unions at the plant, where thousands of workers are expected to lose their jobs
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'Promises turned out to be empty words', says MP of Tata Port Talbot steel deal
Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, whose Aberavon constituency includes Port Talbot and who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Steel, writes exclusively for the Mirror after today's announcement by Tata and the Government
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Full details of job cuts as deal struck for Tata's Port Talbot steel plant
Ministers and the Indian-owned company have reached an agreement after months of negotiations, but unions are furious about the planned job losses which will hammer the community
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Thousands of Port Talbot steel job losses expected in huge announcement
The Mirror understands two Cabinet ministers will visit the plant in South Wales on Friday morning to announce a £500million investment - but jobs will be lost