Workers tell of worry as Liberty Steel’s cash crisis threatens factories and supply chains

When he started his career in 1966, Michael Wilson could earn £10 a week working nights at the steelworks in Rotherham. “That was a very good wage for a young lad at the time,” he said.

There were two main industries in the town, mining and steel, and while the former no longer exists there, the latter is putting up a fight.

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