The First Minister is set to travel to India next week to lobby Tata bosses over the future of steel production in Wales. Vaughan Gething has announced plans to visit Mumbai where he is expected to argue against the closure of the blast furnaces at Port Talbot where the bulk of jobs will be lost and to urge the company to avoid “hard compulsory redundancies”.
Despite union proposals to keep one blast furnace operational at the Port Talbot plant during its transition to greener steel production, Tata Steel has dismissed the plan. The company currently employs 4,000 workers at Port Talbot and is due to start a voluntary redundancy process in May.
Tata’s chief executive say that the union’s proposals are neither “financially or operationally viable”. The union’s have threatened strike action over the upcoming cuts.
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