Corus staff threaten strike over long-term future

Workers at a Teesside steel plant are threatening industrial action over their employer’s ‘inability’ to resolve the site’s long-term future.

The plant, Teesside Cast Products, in Redcar, is owned by Corus, and has already been partly mothballed due to the loss of a contract.

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While Corus is to invest £1.5m in full-time training for more than 200 workers facing redundancy, the cancelled contract has left 1,500 workers at risk, reports Peterborough Today.

Michael Leahy, general secretary of the Community union, said: “Local union reps are concerned about the lack of progress and have requested a ballot for industrial action, which the unions are conducting at national level.”