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Workers at Ferguson Marine Engineering in 2015
A TROUBLED Scottish shipyard will be nationalised after ministers failed to find a buyer.
SNP Finance Secretary Derek Mackay announced today that the Scottish government is “ready and willing to take Ferguson Marine into public ownership.” He said the move would “secure the continued employment of the workforce in the yard” and make sure ferries ordered by the state-owned CalMac were delivered.
Last week bosses at the yard served notice of their intent to put the Port Glasgow yard into administration with about 350 jobs at risk.
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership
