Criticized by the unions for doing nothing to help the British steel industry in crisis, on Friday 23 October, David Cameron’s Conservative Government and Tata Steel announced a package of financial support for workers affected by the Indian company’s redundancy plans, to help them retrain and find alternative employment.
£9 million (€12.5 million) is the amount declared on Friday 23 October by the UK Government and Tata Steel for a support package to help 900 workers at the Indian company’s Scunthorpe (north-east UK) site that were made redundant as part of the company’s social plan announced on Tuesday 20 October. In a UK government press statement the Indian group pledges £3 million to help job creation in the region. This is in addition to £10 million over a period of five years that it has already...
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