Sir, I have worked extensively in the UK energy sector for more than 40 years and visited all the UK’s steelworks (news & business, Apr 12) and other major energy-consuming industries. The companies I worked for have offered significant investment to increase efficiencies in the steelmaking process, all of which were soundly rejected by the unions as the proposals also reduced headcount. The union representative said this would result in strikes. Here we are 30 years later with some of the most inefficient steelworks in the world and the company having to go cap-in-hand to the UK government to protect jobs. It is a travesty that the taxpayer is now bailing out these archaic industries and allowing the unions to continue to have a future
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