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By Bethany Wales Labour is calling for the government to take urgent action to cover thousands of workers facing redundancy at the country’s biggest steel plant. Tata Steel is planning to replace blast furnaces at its Port Talbot site with an electric arc furnace – a greener method of production which needs fewer workers – putting more than 1,900 jobs at risk. Shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens has demanded the government acts faster to get support in place for workers and communities. Labour has called for dedicated employment advisers to be placed in the community to coordinate and deliver su…

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