Around 1,500 workers have voted in favour of strikes - the first time in over 40 years that steel workers in Port Talbot will walk out.
Hundreds of steel workers are set to go on strike over the proposed closure of Port Talbot's blast furnaces. Unite the Union announced the result of its strike ballot on Thursday but walkout dates are yet to be confirmed. Around 1,500 workers based in Port Talbot and Newport voted in favour of strikes. It will be the first time in more than 40 years that Port Talbot steel workers have gone on strike.
Unite argues that other European countries are transitioning to ensure a 'bright future' for the steel industry. It says the blast furnaces at the Tata plant in the Netherlands is being kept open and that in Germany more steel is being produced at a single plant than by the entire UK industry. Unite Wales regional secretary Peter Hughes said its members would 'not be intimidated into standing by'.
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