Date: Friday 30th January 2009
Community Union responds to sale of Teesside Cast Products (TCP)
Community Union responded to today’s announcement that Italian tube and plate maker Marcegaglia has acquired a majority stake of 56% of Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus's Teesside Cast Products (TCP) slab plant with Korea’s Dongkuk purchasing an additional 20%
Community Union National Officer Roy Rickhuss said:
“Community Union will be seeking assurances about the long term plans from the new owners of the TCP plant. This sale represents an opportunity to safeguard the future of TCP past 2014.
"Community Union will be seeking to protect the terms and working conditions of current employees."
Date: Friday 8th May
Corus announce collapse of the Steel Off-take agreement. Community union instructs our lawyers to support any Corus legal actiion against the consortium.
Date: Monday 11th May
Community Union General Secretary speaks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the threat to Teesside.
Date: Thursday 14th May
Steel union, Community, responds following Steel Summit: ‘Now is the time for action’
Following today’s Steel Summit, which brought together unions, industry, MPs and Government, Community Union said the time for action has now come.
Commenting on the Summit, General Secretary Michael J Leahy said:
“We’ve put our case to the Government and to Corus that Teesside Cast Products cannot be allowed to close. Now is the time for action. We are meeting with Corus tomorrow to discuss in more detail what can be done to save the 10,000 Teesside jobs that would disappear if steelmaking came to an end. Tata and Corus must honour their moral and social obligations to the Teesside community”
Michael Leahy spoke on behalf of the unions and their members at the steel summit.