Last year I was really disappointed that cross-party efforts to save the jobs of those who worked at
Remploy failed. My Labour colleagues on the cross-party working group (Jim McGovern MP,
Jenny Marra MSP and Councillor Kevin Keenan) and I were disappointed when our idea to get contracts for public sector workwear and uniforms either for the Remploy factory or to a new sheltered workplace. We were told that this was not possible and that there was no way in which it could be done. We were then very disappointed to find out that the Remploy factory in Stirling has been given a Scottish Government contract to produce nurses uniforms.
Along with Labour colleagues on the cross-party working group I have written to the Lord Provost who convened the cross-party group asking that the group is re-convened so that we can see whether it is possible to develop our ideas or not in terms of sheltered work places in Dundee.
