Redcar Save Our Steel, Port Talbot and UK steelworks fight for their future

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Tonight I attended a Save Our Steelworks event in Redcar over 2000 attended at 24 hours notice
Photos from Teesside People's Assembly... - Teesside People's Assembly Against Austerity | Facebook

 

[J Ed]

OK. How was it?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

So what's the latest info? Is there a plan? How can people help?

 

[stethoscope]

Remember, government money is only available for helping banks

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

At the moment there seems to be a plan to raise the issue politically local Labour MP Anna Turley got a debate in Parliament last week but I don't think this type of campaigning alone can work. I would hope the Steel Unions would prepare Industrial Action and demonstrations. I hope they demonstrate at the TUC demonstration in Manchester October 4th which is against Austerity.
Redcar finds its fighting spirit as steelworks’ future hangs in the balance

 

[nino_savatte]

Steel should never have been privatised in the first place. People forget that the first big strike during the Thatcher years was the national steel strike of 1980.
The 1980 Steel Strike: Thirty-Five Years On

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Steel should never have been privatised in the first place. People forget that the first big strike during the Thatcher years was the national steel strike of 1980.
The 1980 Steel Strike: Thirty-Five Years On

I was on strike during the 1980 Steel Strike

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Please can people sign this petition to save the Teesside Steelmaking
Save Steel Making On Teesside

 

[treelover]

Going to be devastating for Redcar, etc, Tories won't care though.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Please can people sign this petition to save the Teesside Steelmaking
Save Steel Making On Teesside

I'm from Teesside and remember all too well the unemployment because of the loss of industry, so I hope this plant is saved.

 

[bluescreen]

Two among dozens of things I don't understand: there's coal waiting in ships offshore that SSI can't pay for (so how were they able to buy the plant and get into this sort of mess in the first place, surely they didn't take any money out? ), and HMG keep saying there are EU rules that stop them intervening. I can't see the French being bothered by rules like that.

ETA: I mean, the French for example, not that they have a role in this afaik.

 

[Citizen66]

didn't something similar happen twenty odd years ago when it was going to close or maybe did for a bit?

I worked at the beam mill for a few months, sub contracting doing construction work though not directly employed. Just walking backwards and forwards through it you ended up black, or the inside of your nose certainly did.

I've got annual leave coming up in Oct so hope to pop along to any pickets happening either there or the Pay The Rate one at Wilton.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Keep the pressure on!

http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/wages-at-redcar-steelworks-welcome

 

[stethoscope]

Has Corbyn or the new Labour bench made much comment about it?

 

[bluescreen]

Not getting any press if he has.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Tonight I attended a Save Our Steelworks event in Redcar over 2000 attended at 24 hours notice
Photos from Teesside People's Assembly... - Teesside People's Assembly Against Austerity | Facebook

Genuinely interested as to why I can't see any GMB flags/placards etc in those photos. Was that a PA promotion?

 

[equationgirl]

Please can people sign this petition to save the Teesside Steelmaking
Save Steel Making On Teesside

signed.

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Has Corbyn or the new Labour bench made much comment about it?

Jeremy Corbyn has said the government should intervene including Re Nationalization

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Genuinely interested as to why I can't see any GMB flags/placards etc in those photos. Was that a PA promotion?

Genuinely interested as to why I can't see any GMB flags/placards etc in those photos. Was that a PA promotion?

To be truthful Mr.Bishie I never noticed the rally was called at 24 hours notice by Community and I think the Labour MP for Redcar Anna Turley.

 

[equationgirl]

Steel manufacturing capability is important for UK industry.

 

[bluescreen]

Where? I've been looking all over Google for his response. But yeah, this govt is hardly going to renationalise, is it, so this is just pissing in the wind. (Respectfully)

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

didn't something similar happen twenty odd years ago when it was going to close or maybe did for a bit?

I worked at the beam mill for a few months, sub contracting doing construction work though not directly employed. Just walking backwards and forwards through it you ended up black, or the inside of your nose certainly did.

I've got annual leave coming up in Oct so hope to pop along to any pickets happening either there or the Pay The Rate one at Wilton.

I used to work at Lackenby Rod Mill

 

[bendeus]

Signed. Good luck to you and yours, fella.

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Mr Bishie I have just looked on some of the coverage of the rally I can't see any GMB placards or flags everyone appeared to have generic Save Our Steel posters/placards
Community Union (@CommunityUnion) on Twitter

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Thank you everyone for being so supportive on this .I must point out I am an ex steelworker I am a concerned at what is happening to my local community. I was brought up in a local Steelwork town called South Bank it and neighbouring towns like Grangetown are like former Pit villages. Bigger towns like Middlesbrough and Redcar are full of charity and pound shops.

 

[treelover]

Has Corbyn or the new Labour bench made much comment about it?

Maybe the New New labour will just state "you can't buck the market" given McDonnell's new stance on the economy
tree feeling very betrayed at moment..

 

[treelover]

Genuinely interested as to why I can't see any GMB flags/placards etc in those photos. Was that a PA promotion?

amazing to see people smiling despite such adversity, I hope they win their fight.

 

[bluescreen]

Jeremy Corbyn has said the government should intervene including Re Nationalization

Anything recent on this?

 

[hash tag]

I knew someone that had a narrow boat made to order, to live on, when they retired. They insisted that the steel was British due to the inferior
quality of the imported stuff.

 

[Geoffrey Kerr]

Where? I've been looking all over Google for his response. But yeah, this govt is hardly going to renationalise, is it, so this is just pissing in the wind. (Respectfully)

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