Investigation launched in row over foreign labour being drafted in at nationalised Ferguson Marine THE SCOTTISH Government-owned shipyard Ferguson Marine has launched an investigation in a row over the drafting in of migrant workers while existing staff were let go. The row began last week when police were called after migrant workers were drafted in to work at the shipyard at the centre of Scotland’s ferry-building fiasco during lockdown and breached Covid-19 restrictions. Some 13 workers of Eastern European descent were seen arriving at Ferguson Marine s site in Port Glasgow to pick up accommodation details. One of the released workers, pipe fitter Brian Hamill says he is one of six men laid off in the run up to Christmas as there was no work , only to see some 13 workers of Eastern European origin being brought in shortly afterwards.