{"id":267932,"date":"2025-03-27T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/british-steel-puts-up-to-2700-jobs-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:00:04","slug":"british-steel-puts-up-to-2700-jobs-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/british-steel-puts-up-to-2700-jobs-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"British Steel puts up to 2,700 jobs at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/9941\/live\/03347480-0af5-11f0-bf59-3b6bbdd820ea.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"British Steel puts up to 2,700 jobs at risk\" title=\"British Steel puts up to 2,700 jobs at risk\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">British Steel is launching a consultation that could see the closure of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, affecting between 2,000 and 2,700 jobs.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The company&#8217;s owner, Jingye, said the blast furnaces were &#8220;no longer financially sustainable&#8221; due to tough market conditions, the imposition of tariffs and higher environmental costs.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">British Steel chief executive Zengwei An said it was &#8220;a necessary decision given the hugely challenging circumstances the business faces&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The GMB union called it &#8220;devastating news for the people of Scunthorpe&#8221; and called on the government to do &#8220;everything possible&#8221; to secure the future of steelmaking at the site.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cjryeqrnldvo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Steel is launching a consultation that could see the closure of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, affecting between 2,000 and 2,700 jobs. The company&#8217;s owner, Jingye, said the blast furnaces were &#8220;no longer financially sustainable&#8221; due to tough market conditions, the imposition of tariffs and higher environmental costs. British Steel chief executive Zengwei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/9941\/live\/03347480-0af5-11f0-bf59-3b6bbdd820ea.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[14,6980,4357,1115,1291],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267934,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267932\/revisions\/267934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}