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DEFENDING JOBS: Trade unionists and other campaigners staging a
demonstration outside a BiFab works in Fife yesterday
THE Scottish government was accused yesterday of “letting down” workers at Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab) whose jobs are at risk after ministers allegedly reneged on promises to become the firm’s “primary financiers.”
SNP ministers were pressed to reveal more about their September decision to withdraw an offer of a £30 million guarantee to the business, which led to the yards losing out on a major engineering contract.
BiFab said that its Canadian majority owner had repeatedly offered to transfer shares to the government at no cost, which would have given the government, which is already a minority shareholder, more flexibility to support the company.
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