UNION leaders have demanded they be shown a crucial report into the state of Corus.

The Anglo-Dutch firm brought in McKinsey management consultants last month to produce a study of the assets, strengths and weaknesses of the UK operations.

Now the GMB union has called for an unedited copy of the document to be released to show where the problems lie.

"The GMB will not stand by and see our member's jobs thrown on to the scrapheap because of fat cat mismanagement," said Kevin Curran, regional organiser. "The GMB will fight any compulsory redundancies all the way and reject any attempt to reduce our current steel capacity.

"Our members are in no way to blame for this situation and Corus should realise that if it involved and consulted the workforce before making poor decisions it might not be in the mess it is now."

He said: "Managerial changes are long overdue. We need to be able to deal with people who we can trust and can deliver. Corus can make a start by getting rid of chairman Sir Brian Moffat immediately."