Welsh Lib Dems react to Tata closure information 

Responding to the information that Tata Metal could shut down their Port Talbot web site forward of schedule, the Chief of the Welsh Lib Dems Jane Dodds stated:

“Tata’s unnecessarily heavy-handed strategy in the direction of this disaster has solely added additional gas to the hearth, and their menace to shut the positioning forward of schedule  will do nothing to calm the nerves of these employees already prone to dropping their livelihoods.

Our Welsh employees can’t be forged apart and handled as collateral injury, they’re actual folks coping with governmental negligence and abandonment.

Tata’s proposed transition will lead to an financial catastrophe for 1000’s of employees, their households, and the encircling group of Port Talbot. While additionally contributing in the direction of a psychological well being disaster that would see a grave enhance in dangers of suicide.

It’s not solely folks’s wallets in danger right here but additionally their lives.

We should have a complete plan, in-built cooperation with the employees, that not solely offers retraining but additionally monetary safety and dignity.

We can’t afford at hand Tata the keys and await the approaching crash, we should act now for the sake of the group of Port Talbot.”