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SUPPORT for the steelworkers’ struggle to save their industry was pledged at the Yorkshire & the Humber TUC annual meeting today.
Unite delegate Steve Davison proposed a motion declaring that Britain faces the prospect of becoming the only major economy in the world unable to make its own steel.
Thousands of jobs are under threat in Port Talbot in Wales and Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, while the government placed steel contracts abroad.
Nigel Roebuck, district organiser of train drivers’ union Aslef, told the conference that steel was “the last bastion of British manufacturing industry.”
He recalled the days when eating a meal involved using cutlery stamped Sheffield steel, from a plate made in Staffordshire.
Mr Roebuck said: “Let’s get behind the steelworkers. It is the only heavy industry we’ve got left.”
The conference committed the regional TUC to campaign for steel, for public contracts to order 100 per cent British steel and caps on energy prices.
