{"id":61266,"date":"2024-01-19T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/jan\/18\/tata-steel-to-shut-down-port-talbot-blast-furnaces-3000-jobs-at-risk"},"modified":"2024-01-19T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T18:22:19","slug":"tata-steel-to-shut-down-port-talbot-blast-furnaces-putting-3000-jobs-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61266","title":{"rendered":"Tata Steel to shut down Port Talbot blast furnaces, putting 3,000 jobs at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firm rejects union plan leaving UK on course to become only major economy unable to make steel from scratch<\/p>\n<p>The owners of Port Talbot steelworks have rejected a trade union plan designed to keep its blast furnaces running, putting nearly 3,000 jobs at risk and leaving the UK on course to become the only major economy unable to make steel from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>In what one union said would be a \u201ccrushing blow\u201d to workers and UK steelmaking, Port Talbot\u2019s parent company, the Indian-owned Tata Steel, told workers\u2019 representatives that it could no longer afford to continue production at the loss-making plant in south Wales while it completed a four-year transition plan to greener production.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/jan\/18\/tata-steel-to-shut-down-port-talbot-blast-furnaces-3000-jobs-at-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm rejects union plan leaving UK on course to become only major economy unable to make steel from scratchThe owners of Port Talbot steelworks have rejected a trade union plan designed to keep its blast furnaces running, putting nearly 3,000 jobs at r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,1669,4,61,1370,52,357,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-india","category-job-losses","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tata","category-uk-news","category-wales","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266\/revisions\/61278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}