Around 1,100 workers at the Whyalla Steelworks have accepted a temporary pay cut with operations halted due to issues with the plant's blast furnace. It's been offline for more than seven weeks. After it cooled too much following a planned two-day stoppage for routine maintenance. The arduous task of fixing it is just one of several problems the steelwork's billionaire owner Sanjeev Gupta, is now dealing with.