Workers at Britain’s biggest steel plant in Port Talbot in Wales are braced for widespread job losses as unions prepare for a crunch meeting with management on Thursday.
Executives from India’s Tata Steel, including chief executive T V Narendran, have flown in for the talks with union leaders in London to discuss plans for the future of the company’s UK operations, which employs about 8,000 people.
The company is looking to push through a restructuring as it moves to a greener form of steelmaking, which is expected to lead to up to 3,000 redundancies across Britain. The vast majority are expected to come at the Welsh plant, the biggest employer in the region with a workforce of 4,000.