Campaign to stop bankers’ Christmas parties in seafarers memorial gardens secures assurances from Tower Hamlets Mayor

MARITIME UNION RMT said today that the proposal to hold Christmas parties for bankers in the memorial gardens to the merchant seafarers who have lost their lives since the First World War has been blocked by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets as a result of a protest campaign mobilised by politicians, unions, seafarers organisations and the local community.