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The employees of Tata Steel’s UK unit Port Talbot plant in Wales on Monday called off the strike scheduled to begin on July 8. Tata Company has welcomed this decision of the employees. The employees’ organization had said that they would begin the strike from July 8. Due to which, there was a problem in the voting process of Tata Steel’s UK unit.
At the same time, the company has welcomed the decision of the employees to withdraw the strike and has postponed the plan to close the blast furnace soon.
‘Tata Steel spokesperson said- Employees gave information in writing
A Tata Steel spokesperson said, “Unite Union has informed us in writing that they are postponing the strike scheduled for July 8 with immediate effect.” The spokesperson further said that after the decision to postpone the strike, we are now confident that we will now be able to safely carry out operations and activities in the company. Along with this, we will also stop preparations to stop operations at Blast Furnace 4 and close Port Talbot. Which was planned to be closed this week. We welcome the decision of the employees.
The company had said that it would lay off 2800 people
Tata Steel was planning to shut down its blast furnace at its Port Talbot plant in South Wales, UK, which could lead to the loss of more than 2,800 jobs. Tata had said that this would lead to the loss of 2,500 jobs in the next 18 months. While 300 more employees could lose their jobs in three years.
The company said- we will take statutory advice on job cuts
Tata Steel had said that statutory consultation would be taken on the job cuts, but no timeline was given for this. Indian company Tata Steel had said
The company had taken steps to reduce carbon emissions
In September the steel giant said it had secured £500 million of taxpayer cash to cut emissions and halt financial losses and move towards cheaper, greener steel production.