Evening Gazette reported that Teesside steelworkers marched on Durham with pride and passion, as they took the 'Save our Steel' campaign to the annual miners' gala on July 12th 2009.

As per report, wearing 'Save our Steel' T shirts and displaying multi union banners, hundreds of steelworkers from Corus, who are facing redundancy, received standing ovations wherever they went.

As they marched together, the Corus workers, who are subject to separate 90 day consultation periods at Teesside Cast Products and other sites affected by Corus' decision to cull 2,000 workers nationally, needed no introduction.

Mr Geoff Waterfield multi union chairman of the Teesside works said that "There was a big turnout. We took 70 on a bus and met others there. We marched together in our Save our Steel T-shirts and right along the march we were getting a good round of applause from a lot of groups. They read our fraternal greeting about how our industry was very closely connected to the mining industry in that the devastation to the mining world is now similar to the steel industry with the shrinking number of workers, and how it was a disgrace that this is happening under a Labour Government."

He added that "We would like everyone to support the steelworkers on the march and also by displaying their Save Our Steel posters printed in the Evening Gazette on July 10th 2009."

(Sourced from www.gazettelive.co.uk)