THE Government is to be urged to provide financial help after it was revealed that some shipyard workers have been left penniless.
The discovery came at a meeting held last Friday at Redcar and Cleveland Town Hall to launch the Save Our Shipyards campaign.
The campaign will urge receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers to sell Cammell Laird as a going concern.
The firm's Teesside yard was mothballed last month with the loss of 110 jobs.
The meeting, chaired by would-be Redcar MP Vera Baird, was attended by Teesside MPs Mo Mowlam, Ashok Kumar and Stuart Bell, and about 100 shipyard workers.
The politicians were shocked to learn that workers, who are paid weekly, had been left without money to support their families.
Ms Baird said she would ask Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers if immediate financial help could be given.
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