UK trade body seeks industrial solution to save Corus mill

British trade body Community Union today said it is considering industrial solution for securing the future of Tata-Corus' Teesside Cast Product plant, which the steel maker wants to partially shut.

"Our focus is on Tata-Corus - this is an industrial problem, if Tata-Corus do not start talking honestly about alternatives we might seek an industrial solution," Community Union General Secretary Michael J Leahy OBE said in an emailed statement from London.

The steel maker had last year decided to shut down some of the mills of TCP in UK, threatening to cut 1,700 jobs.

"The lack of honest talk from Tata Corus–the Indian owned UK Steel giant–over alternatives to mothballing its Teesside operations may provoke an industrial confrontation," it said today after a meeting of North East Region Parliamentary Select Committee got over.

Reacting to such a decision, the trade union body had earlier also threatened of industrial action against Corus.

"We need more time to look at all the options - if government money is part of the solution - we want to go jointly as Tata-Corus and the unions to make a united case," OBE added.