Serco, Transport Scotland and the NorthLink dry docking spin
Serco and the Transport Minister have been found out in a sleight of hand deception to make the Serco operation of the Northern Isles Ferry Services look more customer friendly and more cost efficient...
View ArticleSerco raises fares and cuts off-season sailings on Northern Isles Ferries
Three and a half months into the contract for the Northern Isles Ferry Services that it began delivering on 5th July 2012, Serco Northlink has announced that it is raising the fares and cutting the...
View ArticleSerco Northlink’s Christmas present to crew: the predicted job losses
It was only yesterday, in an article on changes Serco Northlink announced to the fares and services it provides to the Northern Isles, that we predicted that the change to the off-season sailing...
View ArticleSerco Northlink’s job shed: unions on the rack with a strong hand misplayed
Since we published an article earlier this evening on Serco Northlink’s letter to staff today announcing that 36 jobs are to go at Northlink Ferries, we have had a range of information on how easily...
View ArticleFormer Northlink Ferries passenger identification policy
There has been discussion amongst For Argyll readers on the ‘show your passport’ identification policy by the new Serco Northlink Ferries service to Orkney and Shetland. Some feel that this is a...
View ArticleSerco Northlink loses commercial director
Serco Northlink began operating the Northern Isles ferry services in July this year, after a legally disputed award of the contract by Transport Scotland.Within months of starting operations, it has...
View ArticleRMT takes action, declares dispute with Serco Northlink and will ballot on...
Having given the new ferry operator on the Northern Isles route every chance to honour its commitments, the shipping union, RMT, has today announced that it has declared a dispute and will shortly...
View ArticleRMT ballot papers out next week on Serco Northlink Christmas strike
The RMT is to send out ballot papers next week to staff who were transferred to the new private sector operator of the Northern Isles ferry services – Serco Northlink.The staff transfer follows...
View ArticleFerry staff in 88% vote to strike against Serco Northlink
Serco Northlink, the new private sector operator on the Northern Isles ferry services to Orkney and Shetland, is facing a strike by staff over what the RMT union see as reneging on previous agreement...
View ArticleRMT sets dates for strike action against Serco Northlink
Following the 79% ballot for strike action amongst its members working for Serco Northlink, operator of the Northern Isles ferry Services to Orkney and Shetland, the RMT Union has now announced the...
View ArticleSerco issues threats on RMT Northern Isles ferry strike, due for Friday start
The shipping union, RMT, today slammed what it has described as ‘management bully-boy tactics by Serco Northlink on its Northern Isles ferry services, as staff prepare for the first phase of strike...
View ArticleShipping union adds to Orkney woes on disabled Serco Northlink ferry
The MV Hamnavoe has limped to Rosyth on one engine for repair to her starboard engine’s crankshaft.Northern Isles Ferry Services operator, the controversial Serco Northlink, expects her to be back in...
View ArticleTavish Scott attacks Scottish Government on unconsulted fare hike on Serco...
Yesterday’s Shetland News reported Shetland MSP and former Scottish Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tavish Scott, on the attack after discounted fares have been substantially hiked by Serco – the...
View ArticleShould Transport Scotland now count passengers and vehicles on Serco...
Is this another case where ‘best value’ may prove to be anything but that?Serco, the giant service supplier to public sectors across the world, has already admitted to the falsification of data on an...
View ArticleDeputy First Minister set to bring welcome local engagement to ferry...
[8th August - Updated below in Responses] On 1st July, the Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, sent a covering letter to the members of the Gourock-Dunoon Ferries Service Steering Group with the...
View ArticleUnder investigation for fraud, Serco sells off subsidiary to try to save...
The giant international public sector service provider, Serco, currently holder of the Scottish Government contract to operate the Northern Isles ferry services, is, as we have reported, under...
View ArticleScottish Government does what it can on Seatruck’s underpaid Estonian crew
Transport Minister, Keith Brown has, in response to RMT’s call for action, engaged in the issue of the exploitation by Seatruck of Estonian seafarers serving on freight vessels it charters, fully...
View ArticlePrivatisation: Scottish Government binned its own ferry company in favour of...
The political opportunism of the Scottish Government’s sudden championing of nationalisation is best shown by examining its own practice.Under persistent questioning in a recent interview with Bernard...
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David MacBrayne Limited, Marchwood Military Port contract – and consequences
[Updated at foot 1 June 2015] Back on the 3rd March 2015, it was announced by the Ministry of Defence [MoD] that Solent Gateway Ltd was the preferred bidder for the contract to run the 91 hectare...
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