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The decline of Scunthorpe steel: There used be 'a job for...

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How times have changed! In the 1970s, more than 200,000 people were employed in the UK steel sector, but the number now stands at just 30,000. Unions say that one in six of those remaining jobs is now under threat Back in the 1970s, despite having 12,000 people on the books locally, there was a Scunthorpe steelworks job available to EVERYONE, as British Steel struggled to fill all its vacancies. BSC management brought in workers by subsidised contract bus from as far afield as Grimsby,...

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