Local MP Seeks Talks to Support TATA Workers
23 May 2011 by Visit Scunthorpe Editors
Scunthorpe MP Nic Dakin has today confirmed that he will be meeting with the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, Mark Prisk to discuss the 1,200 job losses at TATA steel in Scunthorpe.
1,200 job losses were reported in the media on Friday, despite a promised £400 Million investment over the next 5 years at the Scunthorpe site.
Nic will be speaking in a pre recorded interview on Radio Humberside tonight at 5:10 and will appear on look north this evening.
The job losses at TATA steel are a severe blow to Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire, and further fuel the necessity to form a Humber Wide LEP to encourage business growth on the Humber Bank. Failure to form an LEP to date has led to our region being excluded from the Business Enterprise Zone's announced in the last Tory budget. Lets hope that the new Tory led council can build on the foundations already in place to make a pan Humber LEP a reality.
If you would like add your own news article to Visit Scunthorpe, Login or sign up, its free and easy and you can start publishing your own content here, straight away.
Comments
Scunthorpe Steel works used to employ what, 30,000 people at some stage.
Did Scunthorpe go under? No - those people end up in other industries or set up their own businesses or just commuted further for work.
The process of "re-employment" took over 10 years and in the mean time Scunthorpe ended up with the highest drug related crime rate in the country second only to London and Glasgow.
Growing up in 1980's Scunthorpe was grim. Let's hope that these Other Industries appear quickly and opportunities are there for those facing redundancy not just at the works, but in all sectors.
If you would like to leave a comment about this article, Login or sign up now
Please Note
Views expressed on this site are those of individual posters, who by making these posts indemnify Visit Scunthorpe and its operators of any legal responsibility or obligation.
Please respect the privacy of others, if someone gives you infomation that you use in your post, please don't identify them.
Visit Scunthorpe is North Lincolnshire's only truly independent, non commercial, community news web site.
Established in January 2010 we have lots of members with a wide range of views who all contribute
independently with articles of their own.
You won't find dozens of adverts covering our site, or some poor attempt to promote local business services under the guise of offering a community service.
Here on VisitScunthorpe we are interested in just one thing, building an online community which is representative of the people of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire and the surrounding area.
Paul. Founder Visit Scunthorpe.
How it Works
If you would like to have the ability to add articles and comments to Visit Scunthorpe then all you need to do is sign up with a valid email address for an account. This is free, your email address is confidential and we don't send out spam emails.
Once you've completed the sign up then you are free to post and comment on well... pretty much anything, we just have some basic civilised rules to prevent people from inciting violence, hatred or making individual attacks.
If you have a web site or directory which covers either independent news and blogging, or is related to North Lincolnshire or Scunthorpe then get in touch to set up a reciprocal link.
Reply Report