Redcar’s leaders are refusing to contemplate a future without its main industry and the potential loss of 2200 jobs,but their chances of success glimpse slimMany of the Redcar steelworkers laid off last week had worked at the plant for years, others even for decades – from boy to man. Having fought to reignite the blast furnace when it was last mothballed just five years ago, and thousands of these skilled professionals now face being thrown out of work in a town at the very sharp end of the government’s austerity programme.
On Monday the plant was mothballed,with the loss of 1700 jobs. By Friday its owner was in liquidation, threatening redundancy for the 500 workers who were being kept on to preserve the site in the hope that it might reopen – taking the potential impact to 2200 posts.
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Source: theguardian.com