Around 1,500 Tata Steel workers in Britain are set to commence an indefinite strike from July 8 in protest against the company's decision to close two blast furnaces and potentially cut up to 2,800 jobs. The strike, organized by the trade union Unite, marks the first major industrial action by British steel workers in four decades and will impact Tata's Port Talbot and Llanwern sites in Wales. Tata's restructuring plan, announced in January, aims to shift to lower carbon electric arc furnaces with support from £500 million ($632 million) in government funding.
