Steel Strip

Dutch unions are angry about reorganisation plans at the Anglo-Dutch steelworks company Corus. On Monday, the company announced 3,500 job losses across the globe, 800 of them in the Dutch town of Ijmuiden on the coast. Corus says it hopes the company can avoid compulsory redundancies by retraining employees and introducing outplacement programmes. [...]

Since the leaking of the Corus job cuts yesterday, more information has emerged during today:-
The cuts, which amount to 10% of the company’s UK workforce, is a fresh blow to the manufacturing sector, which has already been hammered by the recession.
The group said the UK job losses form part of 3,500 job cuts worldwide.
Corus, which [...]

Reported by the Express and Star on Friday the 23rd Jan
An historic Black Country steel firm is to axe a third of its staff, workers claimed today.
JB and S Lees, which was established in 1872 in West Bromwich, has announced 42 job losses employees said.
The company in Albion Road makes cold rolled steel strip.

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Steelmaker Corus is set to cut 3,500 jobs worldwide, including more than 2,500 in the UK, the BBC understands.
Corus said it could not comment on rumour or speculation, but the company, like all steelmakers, is facing an unprecedented downturn in demand.
One union official told the BBC Corus would announce its restructuring plans to workers [...]