BBC reported that Redcar Labour MP Vera Baird, Mr Michael Leahy the general secretary of the union Community and Mr Terry Pye, Unite's national officer for the steel industry, met with Mr Antonio Marcegaglia CEO of Marcegaglia in Italyregarding the future of Corus' Teeside plant.

As per report, Mr Marcegaglia indicated that “Under the right circumstances, it was willing to use its good offices to encourage its partners to sit down with Corus in the UK to explore new possible commercial solutions which will preserve production at TCP and assist the process of safeguarding jobs at Teesside.”

This is the message the unions take back to Corus and the UK government and hope that they will ensure such talks can take place as a matter of urgency.

The plant is currently under threat because a consortium, which Marcegaglia is part of, has pulled out of a ten year agreement to buy 78% of the plant's production, threatening 2,000 jobs.
era Baird, Antonio Marcegaglia, Terry Pye and Mike Leahy in Mantua