{"id":27871,"date":"2024-04-30T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/welsh-first-minister-to-go-to-india-for-tata-talks\/30\/04\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:14:39","slug":"welsh-first-minister-to-go-to-india-for-tata-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/welsh-first-minister-to-go-to-india-for-tata-talks\/30\/04\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh first minister to go to India for Tata talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 540px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Tata Steel has now drawn its consultation over 2,800 job losses to a close [PA]<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The first minister will be in India next week to lobby the bosses of Tata over the future of steel production in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Vaughan Gething said he will go to Mumbai to press the case for not closing down the blast furnaces at Port Talbot.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would be calling on the company not to have &#8220;hard compulsory redundancies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Steel has rejected a plan from unions to keep one blast furnace running at the steel plant in Port Talbot while it transitions to greener steel production.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,800 jobs are likely to go across Tata&#8217;s UK operations, the bulk of them at Port Talbot &#8211; the biggest steel plant in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It currently employs 4,000 workers at Port Talbot and will begin a voluntary redundancy process in May.<\/p>\n<p>In Wales, the company also has steel processing sites in Llanwern, Shotton, Trostre and Caerphilly.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the Senedd, Mr Gething said: &#8220;Next week, I plan to go to Mumbai to meet Tata to press the case again not just for the alternative but a clear case that we have continued to make and will continue to make for there to be no hard compulsory redundancies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would ask the company to &#8220;look again at the opportunities for steel within Wales and Britain, and what it will mean not just for our renewable future but the general future of our economy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tata last week said its decision would secure the future of steel making at the site and the UK government is contributing \u00a3500m towards the cost of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Steel unions had condemned the decision and threatened industrial action.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"display:block\" class=\"lazyload\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=75&resize=75 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=100&resize=100 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=150&resize=150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=240&resize=240 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=320&resize=320 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=500&resize=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=640&resize=640 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=800&resize=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=1024&resize=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=1280&resize=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/?w=1600&resize=1600 1600w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a1.api.bbc.co.uk\/hit.xiti\/\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/welsh-first-minister-india-tata-145824378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Steel has now drawn its consultation over 2,800 job losses to a close [PA] The first minister will be in India<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/welsh-first-minister-to-go-to-india-for-tata-talks\/30\/04\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}