Goodbye British Steel
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Goodbye British Steel
Job losses leave Corus workers 'devastated' - Home News, UK - The Independent
still,we've a few bankers left to prop up the ecomomy
still,we've a few bankers left to prop up the ecomomy
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Never nice to see some of your "own" loosing their jobs.
Heard about the probability at Teeseide not so long back at my November Corus team brief. The Scunthorpe site in particular isn't doing great either but there is a huge incentive on saving money currently going round. The staff population are genuinely taking part to my knowledge as we're obviously concerned about our long term futures too. Being a 1st year trainee (but Corus employee all the same), the last thing I want is to lose the opportunity I've worked so hard at.
The thinking is (and a chunk of hope is in the mixture) that the recession will hit Corus as a "v" shape with small rumbles and not a "w" shape. Luckily at Scunthorpe we have certain facilities that no other Tata site in the world currently has (and something which would cost the parent company a fortune to replicate) otherwise the 4,000 odd staff here may have already suffered the same fate.
Heard about the probability at Teeseide not so long back at my November Corus team brief. The Scunthorpe site in particular isn't doing great either but there is a huge incentive on saving money currently going round. The staff population are genuinely taking part to my knowledge as we're obviously concerned about our long term futures too. Being a 1st year trainee (but Corus employee all the same), the last thing I want is to lose the opportunity I've worked so hard at.
The thinking is (and a chunk of hope is in the mixture) that the recession will hit Corus as a "v" shape with small rumbles and not a "w" shape. Luckily at Scunthorpe we have certain facilities that no other Tata site in the world currently has (and something which would cost the parent company a fortune to replicate) otherwise the 4,000 odd staff here may have already suffered the same fate.
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I feel really sorry for these guys,I'm losing my job at Corus in March when they relocate to a different Corus site in Shotton.Tata who are Corus parent company sent us letter though the post on Thursday telling us how well Tata Europe has done .There are some guys who are still quite angry/bitter about the way the whole thing has been handle by Corus(long story),but i see it has a chance to get retrained and hopefully learn a new trade.
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I feel really sorry for these guys,I'm losing my job at Corus in March when they relocate to a different Corus site in Shotton.Tata who are Corus parent company sent us letter though the post on Thursday telling us how well Tata Europe has done .There are some guys who are still quite angry/bitter about the way the whole thing has been handle by Corus(long story),but i see it has a chance to get retrained and hopefully learn a new trade.
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Redcar was my childhood beach holiday ... we were rather destitute
Went back there about 8 years ago, maybe it was always a sh1thole and I never saw it as a kid - or maybe it has been run down since the 1950's ....... but it was dismal in the November north east wind and rain.
It's in stark contrast to the £MILLIONS about to be given to the Bankers who cannot do their jobs properly ... and here we have hard working men who have lost their jobs
Disgusting twisted world we live in ....... Teesside deserves better.
Went back there about 8 years ago, maybe it was always a sh1thole and I never saw it as a kid - or maybe it has been run down since the 1950's ....... but it was dismal in the November north east wind and rain.
It's in stark contrast to the £MILLIONS about to be given to the Bankers who cannot do their jobs properly ... and here we have hard working men who have lost their jobs
Disgusting twisted world we live in ....... Teesside deserves better.
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[QUOTE=SunnySideUp;9082616]Redcar was my childhood beach holiday ... we were rather destitute
Went back there about 8 years ago, maybe it was always a sh1thole and I never saw it as a kid - or maybe it has been run down since the 1950's ....... but it was dismal in the November north east wind and rain.
It's in stark contrast to the £MILLIONS about to be given to the Bankers who cannot do their jobs properly ... and here we have hard working men who have lost their jobs
Disgusting twisted world we live in ....... Teesside deserves a (MOAB)
Went back there about 8 years ago, maybe it was always a sh1thole and I never saw it as a kid - or maybe it has been run down since the 1950's ....... but it was dismal in the November north east wind and rain.
It's in stark contrast to the £MILLIONS about to be given to the Bankers who cannot do their jobs properly ... and here we have hard working men who have lost their jobs
Disgusting twisted world we live in ....... Teesside deserves a (MOAB)
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Redcar was my childhood beach holiday ... we were rather destitute
Went back there about 8 years ago, maybe it was always a sh1thole and I never saw it as a kid - or maybe it has been run down since the 1950's ....... but it was dismal in the November north east wind and rain.
It's in stark contrast to the £MILLIONS about to be given to the Bankers who cannot do their jobs properly ... and here we have hard working men who have lost their jobs
Disgusting twisted world we live in ....... Teesside deserves better.
Went back there about 8 years ago, maybe it was always a sh1thole and I never saw it as a kid - or maybe it has been run down since the 1950's ....... but it was dismal in the November north east wind and rain.
It's in stark contrast to the £MILLIONS about to be given to the Bankers who cannot do their jobs properly ... and here we have hard working men who have lost their jobs
Disgusting twisted world we live in ....... Teesside deserves better.
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voted the worse place in the country to live , mostly due to poverty now we are losing 1700 jobs but it will be more like 3000 jobs with contractors and busness linked to british steel
redcar town is alot more run down now than it was 8 years ago pete..what will it be like in 5 more years
redcar town is alot more run down now than it was 8 years ago pete..what will it be like in 5 more years
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This was the Redcar I knew ..... used to jump in and out of the Fishing Boats lined up along the prom.
My dad used bought crabs from the fishermen when they beached - take them home to boil them ...... those were really hard days, but we ate quite well
This was the Redcar I knew ..... used to jump in and out of the Fishing Boats lined up along the prom.
My dad used bought crabs from the fishermen when they beached - take them home to boil them ...... those were really hard days, but we ate quite well
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this is redcar now pete YouTube - Ghost town ! it is getting pretty bad on the bright side the beach is a lot cleaner now
not many fishing boats left
not many fishing boats left
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YouTube - Atonement Premiere in Redcar
YouTube - Atonement Premiere in Redcar
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this is redcar now pete YouTube - Ghost town ! it is getting pretty bad on the bright side the beach is a lot cleaner now
not many fishing boats left
not many fishing boats left
1 minute walk from the beach!
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And the government say they *did all they could to help* ... EU Referendum: Not enough support?
"... The claimed reason for the closure of the Redcar plant is " over-capacity" in the industry, with Tara producing more than 28 million tons a year, employing approximately 80,000 workers across four continents. Strangely, though, this problem does not apply to the Indian plants (one pictured).
There, the industry is set to expand from its 2007 base of 53.10 million tons to 124.06 million a year by 2011-12 and to nearly 293 million tons annually by 2020.
Massive investment is required to see this expansion through, but as new plants will replace units with higher emissions per ton of steel produced – although they will still produce more emissions than comparable European plants – they will qualify for "Clean Development Mechanism" funding, plus "green" loans and grants which Mr Brown is so kindly set to negotiate at the Copenhagen summit.
So, when the Redcar plant workers, and all workers from the suppliers and service enterprises, can celebrate their job-free status for Christmas, they can at least be comforted by the fact that EU funds – to which they have contributed – will keep their Dutch colleagues in work, while Mr Brown's largess will be set to employ ever larger numbers of Indian workers, all in the name of saving the planet.
Much of that will come out of Mr Brown's £800 million annual splending spree, on top of the £800 million annual aid we give to India to relieve "poverty" (thus enabling India to maintain a standing army of 1.2 million men - to say nothing of its space programme) ..."
The last comment put in bold to point out to some sensitive souls on SN where some of our overseas aid goes to. And why it shouldn't! But a massive blow to lose the plant. And lookie here ... FT.com / UK / Economy & Trade - Tories hit at decline of manufacturing
"... The Tories seized on Financial Times analysis showing that manufacturing has declined almost three times faster under Labour than it did during the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher ..."
Wonder how many of those that lost their jobs will still vote Labour though??
Dave
"... The claimed reason for the closure of the Redcar plant is " over-capacity" in the industry, with Tara producing more than 28 million tons a year, employing approximately 80,000 workers across four continents. Strangely, though, this problem does not apply to the Indian plants (one pictured).
There, the industry is set to expand from its 2007 base of 53.10 million tons to 124.06 million a year by 2011-12 and to nearly 293 million tons annually by 2020.
Massive investment is required to see this expansion through, but as new plants will replace units with higher emissions per ton of steel produced – although they will still produce more emissions than comparable European plants – they will qualify for "Clean Development Mechanism" funding, plus "green" loans and grants which Mr Brown is so kindly set to negotiate at the Copenhagen summit.
So, when the Redcar plant workers, and all workers from the suppliers and service enterprises, can celebrate their job-free status for Christmas, they can at least be comforted by the fact that EU funds – to which they have contributed – will keep their Dutch colleagues in work, while Mr Brown's largess will be set to employ ever larger numbers of Indian workers, all in the name of saving the planet.
Much of that will come out of Mr Brown's £800 million annual splending spree, on top of the £800 million annual aid we give to India to relieve "poverty" (thus enabling India to maintain a standing army of 1.2 million men - to say nothing of its space programme) ..."
The last comment put in bold to point out to some sensitive souls on SN where some of our overseas aid goes to. And why it shouldn't! But a massive blow to lose the plant. And lookie here ... FT.com / UK / Economy & Trade - Tories hit at decline of manufacturing
"... The Tories seized on Financial Times analysis showing that manufacturing has declined almost three times faster under Labour than it did during the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher ..."
Wonder how many of those that lost their jobs will still vote Labour though??
Dave
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Was it the Colby plant Spencer?
On another note, reading the Scunthorpe Corus' site newspaper (yes they are still printing this off in FULL colour as a free paper in these hard times ), they claim the Indian side of Tata steel is set for 12% growth next year alone - far higher then even China and its new powerstations etc.
Hey I heard the weathers hot in India so maybe I'll bugger off there when I'm qualified (make the best out of a scary situation huh?)