At Tate Galleries in London, Parting Gift Makes Waves: A Boat<br />Tate Modern said that It is insensitive that Tate management would even think to do this<br />and we would encourage them to concentrate on listening to our concerns as we campaign for fair pay, more staff and an end to outsourcing at Tate.<br />But when staff members at the Tate Modern and Tate Britain art galleries in London were asked this week to contribute<br />to buy a gift for the Tate group’s departing director, many raised eyebrows over the present: a sailboat.<br />"Nick loves sailing, and this would be a lasting and very special reminder of the high<br />regard which I know so many of us have for Nick and his contribution to Tate."<br />Tate asking its workers, many of them outsourced and on low wage zero-hours contracts, to contribute<br />towards buying Nicholas Serota a yacht pic.twitter.com/mhFLAN3HQW Pay negotiations have been tense.<br />Public said that This shows how far Tate management are removed from the reality of the everyday lives of Tate staff and the fact<br />that many of them can barely afford to pay their bills,<br />One trade union claimed that even after wage increases proposed by the museum group, staff<br />pay would range from 15,707 pounds to 23,695 pounds, or about $20,230 to $30,520.
