Trostre and Margam are safe, though Llanwern is to be mothballed. There will be pain, a thousand jobs being lost across South Wales, but Tata has clearly taken a considered, calculated, line in response to the downturn in orders for steel. Nor have they been afraid to cut more jobs in England than in Wales.
The company has planned for a timely response when the upturn comes, and, as a Labour council colleague has pointed out, the company is not burdened with debt to the extent that other steel companies are.
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