Tata Steel Teesside plant sale hopes on a high--Unions positive about deal with Sahaviriya Steel going through

摘要

Hopes that Tata Steel's plan to sell its Teesside Cast Products steel plant in northern England to Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) could soon be finalised continue to mount Unions welcomed the latest announcement from the Thai firm that the sale could go through in the first quarter of next year. "We are positive about the deal and while we still have some discussions about terms -and conditions from a union perspective we see no reason why it shouldn't go through," said Mr Matt Ball, a spokesman for Community, one of the unions representing workers at the plant He said that another round of talks with the unions had been scheduled to take place last week, but due to the adverse weather conditions in the UK had been postponed to early January.