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Trade unionists at STUC vow to fight for a people’s CalMac ferry service
The unfinished Glen Sannox Caledonian Macbrayne (CalMac) ferry in the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, May 2022
TRADE unionists at the STUC congress resolved today to fight for continued public ownership of Scotland’s ferry services and a people’s CalMac.
Maritime union RMT said that there was a “positive case” for CalMac ferries, amid fears that some are using the firm’s crisis as a platform to build the case for unbundling.
Scrapping the bundling of ferry routes would mean CalMac — full name Caledonian MacBrayne — losing the ability to cross-subsidise essential services from more profit-making routes such as Ardrossan to Brodick, ultimately leading to fragmentation, privatisation and a deterioration in services, the union argued.
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