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Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a Scottish shipbuilding consortium, created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders of the River Clyde. It entered liquidation, with much controversy, in 1971. That led to a "work-in" campaign at the company's shipyards, involving shop stewards Jimmy Airlie and Jimmy Reid, among others.
Jimmy Airlie (10 November 1936, Renfrew – 10 March 1997, Erskine) was a leading Scottish trade unionist. While a shop steward, along with Sammy Gilmore, Sammy Barr and Jimmy Reid he was particularly remembered for his role as chairman of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in committee of 1971.
Reid came to prominence in the early 1970s, when he led the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in to try to stop Edward Heath's Conservative government from closing down the shipyards on the River Clyde. [3] The government had decided that the shipyards should operate without state subsidy, which would have resulted in at least six thousand job ...
In 1968 the yard passed from Connell family ownership after 107 years and became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. [2] The Scotstoun yard continued to be operated by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders until 1971, when the company collapsed, [3] and from 1972 to 1980 by Scotstoun Marine Ltd, a subsidiary of Govan Shipbuilders.
Kvaerner Govan Ltd (KGL), located at Govan in Glasgow on the River Clyde, was a shipyard subsidiary formed in 1988 when the Norwegian group Kværner Industrier purchased the Govan Shipbuilders division of the nationalised British Shipbuilders corporation.
The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders was a consortium of Scottish shipbuilders that was birthed in 1968 by an adjoining of five shipbuilders. It was liquidated in 1971 resulting in an occupation/work-in campaign by shop stewards in shipyards. See Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.
In 1968 the yard merged into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, [15] but this consortium collapsed in 1971. [16] The last ship to be built at the yard, the Clyde-class bulk grain carrier Alisa, was completed in 1972. [17] In 1972 UCS's liquidator sold the Clydebank shipyard to Marathon Manufacturing Company.
In 1968, Stephens was incorporated into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders [7] and was closed after the latter organisation collapsed in 1971. [8] The engineering and ship repair elements of Alexander Stephen & Sons were not part of the UCS merger and continued until 1976, with the Company eventually wound up in 1982, when the shareholders were repaid.