STEEL workers pany in Llanelli, Wales, are threatening militant action to stave closure.
The Duport Group known for Slumberland beds, is intending to scrap its steel inThe steel-making. 200 Llanelli, employed, faces total snut down within 90 days, while the re-rolling Midlands and Sheffield will be sold off to the British Steel Corporation.
With unemployment stand ing at 15 per cent in the area, une canell steelworkers have rejected redundancy hand-outs and agreed to fight the closure.
There are plans to lay siege to the plant it the mes to remove valuabie could ment, recently installed £30m modernisation project.
John Carberry, steel union official, said: 'We will block the works to prevent the removal South off best plant in are the •By Celia Pugh of plant and machinery. We do not accept that the closure of the works is inevitable and our main emphasis is to keep it intact.
company for jobs was a demonstration of trade union, Labour Party, and community supporters In Llanelli on 28 February.
The presence demonstration of members of miners' lodges was a sign that If the last year the The first round in this fight A workers, in the the that direction the steelworkers are prepared to learn the lesson of the recent miners' fight against closure -that action can stop job losses.
Duport workers do take industrial action it will call steel union leaders who have stood by as over 16,000 Welsh steel jobs have been axed in the More losses are in store in when boss lan MacGregor reports on his corporate plan in July. Industry Secretary Keith Joseph recently said in parlia ment that 'Mr MacGreaor ad mits his plan is optimistic, and | think is MacGregor's орtimism is not justified, further closures and redundancies will be necessary.
victory for the Duport although they work private steel sector, would prove a powerful incen. tive for Keith Joseph to decidTory U-turn in the OT maintaining steel jobs should be considered. оссиру