A general view of British Steel in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, April 12, 2025
BRITISH STEEL staff and civil servants raced to secure the raw materials needed to keep Britain’s last primary steel-making plant running today.
Without materials such as coking coal and iron ore, the blast furnaces at the Scunthorpe plant will cool, risking irreparable damage.
On Saturday, the government passed an emergency law to seize control of the plant from the company’s Chinese owners Jingye.
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
