Ferries won't be split up
Friday 07 September 2012
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EmailTransport union RMT has welcomed Scottish government assurances that state-owned ferry service CalMac's West Coast and Clyde routes will not be split up.
First Minister Alex Salmond told MSPs that there were "no plans to unbundle" the Clyde and Hebrides services as had been suggested in a Scottish government consultation from 2010.
RMT general secretary Bob Crow welcomed the First Minister's confirmation of a "cast iron assurance that there will be no unbundling of the CalMac routes in order to prime them up for privatisation" which was given by Scottish Transport Minister Keith Brown on Thursday.
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