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Tate’s tone deaf ‘long-service gift’ leaves workers gobsmacked

Having asked low-paid staff to buy outgoing director Nicholas Serota a new boat last month Tate is now showing its gratitude for long-suffering workers in less rarefied circles — a gift card for the company store which won’t be offered to the staff it recently outsourced. People who have spent 28 years at Tate, the same as their nautically-minded £170,000-per-year boss, will

Zero-hours Tate staff amazed as they’re asked to stump up for boss’s new boat

What do you get the man who has everything when you’re working on an outsourced, casualised contract he implemented? Workers at institutional arts giant Tate were offered a jaw-dropping answer yesterday via a note left in their staffroom and a staff-wide email which urged them, seemingly without irony, to donate towards buying outgoing CEO Nicholas Serota a sailing