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Scotland’s fabrication yards are lying unused. We need an industrial strategy that will get them working again and provide real, well-paid, green jobs, argues TAM KIRBY
FIFE

THE Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the GMB Scotland and Unite Scotland have launched a campaign to get EDF to put a substantial amount of work into the yards that are lying dormant in Fife. 

They are calling on EDF to do the right thing, for the environment, for the community, for the people of Scotland. EDF, build your jackets in Fife.

The Scottish government has a policy of achieving a zero-carbon economy. How does manufacturing our renewable infrastructure on the other side of the world fit in with that policy? It doesn’t.

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