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Mackay promises changes

‘Make or break summit’ pledges action on wind deals

Pat Rafferty
Pat Rafferty: ‘time to shake off the shackles of failure’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Scottish Finance Secretary Derek Mackay today agreed to introduce new measures to help avoid big renewablesRead More

Concern over commitment

Demand for ‘level playing field’ as subsidised rivals win deals

Pat Rafferty
Pat Rafferty: ‘We were promised a ‘Saudi Arabia of Renewables’ (pic: Terry Murden)   Trade unions are furious that lucrative contracts for offshore wind farms have been awarded to overseasRead More

Deal creates jobs

BiFab yard hires 82 staff after securing wind contract

Battle for BiFab
Workers demonstrated last year to save the yards (pic: Terry Murden)   Fabrication company BiFab has hired 82 workers at its Arnish yard after new owner DF Barnes secured a contractRead More

New concern for jobs

Unions fear BiFab being squeezed by foreign bidders

Battle for BiFab
BiFab workers demonstrated last year to save jobs (pic: Terry Murden)   Trade unions have warned that the prospect of no work coming to Fife from two major Scottish offshoreRead More

Failure to find new work

BiFab yards shutdown after order book dries up

Pat Rafferty
The BiFab yards in Fife and Lewis have effectively closed after further redundancies were ...

New owner cuts workforce

Labour urges intervention as more BiFab jobs axed

Battle for BiFab
Scottish Labour has urged the government to intervene once again in resolving the future of the BiFab yards

Workers jobs saved

BiFab sold to Canada’s JV Driver as ministers take stake

Keith Brown
A Canadian company has acquired the threatened fabrication firm BiFab in a deal brokered by the Scottish Government.

Yards have no further work

BiFab plant expected to close with 260 job losses

Keith Brown
The BiFab marine engineering yards in Fife and Lewis are expected to close

1,400 jobs saved

BiFab closure threat lifted after funding deal agreed

Battle for BiFab
A threat of huge job losses at the Burntisland Fabrication yards has been lifted

Workers march on Holyrood

Brown: ‘no stone left unturned’ to save BiFab jobs

Boy at BiFab demo
Economy Secretary Keith Brown today pledged cross-party commitment to resolving the crisis at the BiFab offshore yards.