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Unite union calls off strike at Port Talbot steelworks after owner offers fresh talks

Rajesh Nair, UK boss of Tata Steel, offers new round of discussions about future investment at site

A strike at the Port Talbot steelworks has been called off after its owner, Tata Steel, offered to engage in fresh talks with trade unions over future investment in a plant destined to lose 2,800 jobs and close its last remaining blast furnaces.

Members of the Unite trade union had been due to begin industrial action on 8 July, days after Tata plans to begin a process that will ultimately end more than 70 years of making steel from scratch at the plant.

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