The government has failed to protect Newport Wafer Fab, Britain’s biggest silicon chip maker, putting a vital part of our technological infrastructure at risk.
Industry
British manufacturers use over a trillion chips a year. There is a chronic shortage, but the governemt has no strategy to deal with the crisis.
Freed from the EU, Britain’s economy can – and must – avoid the perils of globalism. But globalisation is not an aberration… it is the logical development of capitalism...
The government claims it has rescued Tata Steel, but the deal threatens the existence of Port Talbot, Britain’s largest steel works. Thousands of skilled jobs are at risk.
Unite has launched a campaign to highlight the decline in Britain’s steel industry, with a plan for its future, including the demand that public contracts are obliged to use British steel.
Plans to shut Scotland’s only oil refinery threaten skilled jobs and Britain’s industrial base.
Tata Steel is cutting jobs at Port Talbot steelworks, driven by net zero. That will damage the steel industry and the wider economy.
The promise of massive investment in battery production for electric vehicles has yet to materialise in Britain. But it looks as if Tata are now committed to a plant in Somerset.
Steel workers in Wales and the East Midlands highlight the importance of steel to industrial sovereignty.
Transport binds a nation, moving people and goods around. Our infrastructure needs modernising. What can workers do about this?
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