10,000 more jobs in the steel industry.
is the stark message from MacGregor and his Tory mentor Keith Joseph.
MacGregor only started work on lucsaay but alread he is planning to close one steel-making plant Llanwern, in Scunthorpe, and a third at Port Talbot.
This comes on top of the 50.000 iobs which are already being sacrificed in the steel industry behalf 'unemployment is necessary' politics of the Tory governICHL In reply to criticism Ol these other Joseph had the nerve to blame trace unions demanded less money, he said at the weekend, there would HOIC OUS around.
The crazy logic of Joseph has rarely been laid so bare. The tacts are that the highest unemployment regions - like also unc JOWCSI Warc Tales truth is that Kritish are already among the lowest paid in West Europe.
The losses the British Steel industry is facing are not the laull or lose wno work were Throughout the capitalist world the steel industry is in a the new boss of British Steel, is calling for the axeing of at least mess.
That accelerating Tate In tus county Is nor une fault of the trade unions because unemployment is also UnTOUCHOUL LIC Western world.
Which means the recession tacing brisa Inaustry -including the steel industry is not the fault of working people. nererore working people should not be made to pay the price of a declining economy, over which tney have no control in the first place Joseph, MacGregor, and to those who think like them to fight closure and defend every job.
Wherever there is a shortage of work, that work should ne shared out - ouT not aT ine of the living dards of those who do the snaring In the steel industry steelworkers have the chance to give lan Macuregor a baptism of fire by saying:
No closures!
No redundancies!
No loss of pay!
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