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GMB Scotland warned David Cameron yesterday that the Royal Navy’s new flagship supercarriers can “rust at Rosyth” if any compulsory redundancies are made over the delayed contract for new naval frigates.
The union has mooted the idea that shipyard workers could hold the two supercarriers hostage in port to halt any forced job losses at the BAE yard on the Clyde.
GMB Scotland officer Gary Cook said that the joint unions at Rosyth, Govan and Scotstoun were prepared to do “whatever it takes” to defend jobs.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
