TATA Steel will cut 1,050 more UK jobs in what the industry is calling a wake up call for the government.

It comes on top of hundreds of cuts announced by Tata last year, which it blamed on plunging steel prices.

About 750 of the latest job losses are expected in Port Talbot to help save the Welsh site, the UK’s biggest steelworks.

Another 300 jobs could be lost at steel mills in Llanwern, Trostre, Hartlepool and Corby.

Tata would not comment on the plans, but an announcement is widely expected on Monday morning.

Gareth Stace, director of UK Steel, said: “If anything does happen with further job losses, it’s a wake up call again to government.

“The work it’s doing to help us is good but we need much further action taking place to tackle the imports, the flood of Chinese steel into the UK and the European economy.

“We need to see government and the European Commission tackling that head on.”

Port Talbot, which currently employs 4,000 workers, is the biggest steel plant in Britain in terms of workforce and output, but is understood to be losing £1m a day.

The government said it was meeting key steel industry asks through cutting energy costs and taking action on imports and EU emissions regulations.

A Business Department spokesman said it was monitoring the Tata situation closely.

“The government continues to engage closely with Tata on how we can help during this difficult period for the sector,” he said.

Alan Coombs, president of the Community union in Port Talbot, said the impact on the local community would be devastating.

“Workers at the Port Talbot plant are obviously worried about job losses, although they have known for several years that the situation was worsening,” he said.

“It’s been a slippery slope since 2008-09 but we are getting nearer to the edge all the time,” he said.”

Mr Coombs, a steel worker for 30 years who is involved in the talks with Tata, said the government should impose tariffs on Chinese steel and lower business rates for UK steelworks.

Tata Steel employs more than 80,000 people worldwide and is part of the wider Tata Group, an Indian conglomerate.

Founded more than 100 years ago, it has grown into a global producer with operations in 26 countries and revenue of around £15bn last year.

It became Europe’s second largest steel producer, and the biggest in the UK, after it bought Corus, formerly British Steel, for £8bn in 2007.

Tata also has plants in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium and south east Asia. Its steel is used to make products from cars to furniture and battery cases.

Thousands of steel industry jobs were lost in 2015 with cutbacks and the closure of plants in England and Scotland involving Tata and other companies.

Local politicians have called for urgent action from the UK government to prevent further job losses.

Stephen Kinnock, the MP for Aberavon, which includes Port Talbot, said job losses would be a “bitter blow” for the area and stressed support was needed for workers made redundant.

In October, the Indian firm announced nearly 1,200 roles were to be axed in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire.