“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 />Tate, which operates the Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, and Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool, said in a statement<br />that the idea for the gift “came from the staff themselves who wanted to mark his 28 years of service to Tate.”<br />“Contributions towards the purchase of a small dinghy, which the staff thought would be an original gift, are entirely voluntary.”<br />A spokesman for the Tate group declined to elaborate on which staff members had proposed the idea and did not disclose how much money had been raised.<br />At Tate Galleries in London, Parting Gift Makes Waves: A Boat -<br />By AMIE TSANGAPRIL 28, 2017<br />LONDON — The practice of office workers pitching in to buy a gift for a departing<br />colleague — especially one with decades of service — is an old tradition.<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.
