Caparo workers to hold crisis talks
Workers from engineering giant Caparo Industries were today travelling to the House of Commons to urge the Government to act over the crisis engulfing the steel industry.
Around 1,700 jobs are under threat in the Black Country after the company entered administration last week.
Workers from Caparo were due to meet with MPs this morning before a debate in the Commons on the issue.
The announcement that the company was in the hands of administrators came after around 2,200 jobs went at the SSI mill at Redcar and another 1,200 at Tata Steel in Scunthorpe and Scotland.
More than 40 companies have already expressed an interest in running parts of the troubled firm.
A taskforce made up of business leaders, academics and politicians held its first meeting at Birmingham City University on Friday to try and find a way to save Caparo.
Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said: "The message from steelworkers and their communities to the government is clear - step in and support the industry to save our steel before it's too late.
"The approach by ministers so far has been to deal with the symptoms of the steel crisis, when what steel and manufacturing communities want is action that secures UK steelmaking and secures their futures.
"How many more jobs need to go and how many more communities will be devastated before the government acts?"
