Tata: nationalise, don’t subsidise
Unions are balloting for strikes following the announcement of massive job cuts at Tata Steel. The Indian conglomerate Tata, which has recorded profits of over £23bn, has confirmed this month that it plans axing up to 2,800 jobs; It will close two blast furnaces at Port Talbot, with potential redundancies also at another site, in Llanwern. It is already closing the Morfa Coke Ovens, in Port Talbot, on 20 March. Tata Steel currently employs 8,000 people in the UK, 3,859 people at the Port Talbot site. A protest has been held in Port Talbot, and workers from the Llanwern site (where 917 are...