Strike of workers in port of Glasgow plans for today
A mass meeting of the workforce of Ferguson shipyard at Port Glasgow is planned for today.
The GMB union said two thirds of the workers would be given redundancy notices threatening the survival of one of the last yards on the lower Clyde. Union officials said the shipyard is about to make 75 posts redundant. Local Labour MSP Trish Godman said she had submitted a written question on the issue and would be speaking to ministers to push the yard's case. The Ferguson yard was threatened with closure two years ago when it lost a vital contract to a Polish rival.
The unions said the yard needed a £14m tender to build a fisheries protection vessel to safeguard its future.
The GMB union said two thirds of the workers would be given redundancy notices threatening the survival of one of the last yards on the lower Clyde. Union officials said the shipyard is about to make 75 posts redundant. Local Labour MSP Trish Godman said she had submitted a written question on the issue and would be speaking to ministers to push the yard's case. The Ferguson yard was threatened with closure two years ago when it lost a vital contract to a Polish rival.
The unions said the yard needed a £14m tender to build a fisheries protection vessel to safeguard its future.
