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.