Alun Davies, National Officer for Steel at Community, the steelworkers’ union, said:
“Community representatives from all Tata Steel UK plants have unanimously agreed to serve notice on the company should Tata confirm their intention to close Blast Furnace Number 4.
“This would be a national dispute and Community will ballot all members on a site-by-site basis including the downstream plants.
“At this point we remain in national consultations and the company has not responded to our revised version of the Multi-Union Plan, which our experts continue to develop.
“Therefore at this time Community is not confirming an industrial action ballot timetable, and this would be premature as we have not yet exhausted the procedures.”
Community Union and GMB Union working with Syndex developed the Multi-Union plan for Port Talbot, which has been presented to Tata Steel.
Community is the steelworkers’ union. More steelworkers are members of Community than any other union, and we represent the vast majority of workers impacted by Tata’s decarbonisation plans. We have a history dating back over a century, representing members and campaigning to protect Britain’s steel industry. We are a modern trade union, campaigning for a better working world.
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