Last week, IKEA workers in Stoughton, Massachusetts asked the company to recognize their request to unionize. Today, those workers went out on strike. IKEA still has not responded to their request, for some reason.
IKEA Workers Have Asked for a Union and the Company Hasn't Responded
Yesterday, a large group of workers at an IKEA store in Massachusetts told the company they want to unionize. IKEA’s response so far? Nothing.
What's It Like Working at Ikea?
Sensing the way the political winds are blowing, unassembled furniture warehouse Ikea is following the lead of retailers like Walmart and raising the wages of its employees. Will that be enough?
Museumgoers Think IKEA Painting is Real, Amazing, Worth Six Figures
Art is whatever people think it is, and what people think it is depends an awful lot on context: For example, whether the work is being displayed in an art museum by a dapper bloke in glasses and a vest, or whether it's sitting alongside other copies of the exact same print in an IKEA, with a listed price of €10.
IKEA Hates Fun, Shuts Down Hide and Seek Games at Dutch Stores
You know what would be a fun way to spend your Saturday night? Playing hide and seek with a huge group of Dutch people at an IKEA in Amsterdam. IKEA is wicked stressful, and that stress could be alleviated with some childhood revelry among plastic laptops and display couches. IKEA's bosses, however, have to disagree.
Missing 12-Year-Old Boy Finally Rescued From IKEA After Six-Day Search
The nearly week-long hunt for a missing Shanghai boy came to an end Sunday when the 12-year-old was found inside an IKEA store. Peng Yijian ran away from home last week after an argument with his mother, Shanghai Daily reported.
Swedish Woman Finds IKEA Bags Filled With 80 Human Skeletons
A woman who lifted up a tarp inside a church in southern Sweden was shocked to discover a stash of plastic IKEA bags filled with human bones, The Local reports.
Pranksters Trap Shoppers Inside IKEA Showrooms, Watch Them Freak Out
If there was anything in our present world that most closely resembled a futuristic dystopia, it would be IKEA.
Enjoy your BILLY bookcases and HEMNES coffee tables, because IKEA is using one percent of the world's wood every year to make them. But apparently one in ten Europeans are conceived in an IKEA bed every year. So, you know, the circle of life: the IKEA giveth and the IKEA taketh away.
Couple Gets Married Inside New Jersey IKEA Store
For once, IKEA is in the news for something other than a poop or horse meat scandal: Eight years ago, Shirley Stewart and Berkely “Rashid” Smith met in the framing department of a New Jersey IKEA. When Smith proposed earlier this year, the couple decided to tie the knot in the same store, in the same section.
IKEA Removes Pork-Tainted Moose Lasagna From Stores
IKEA's massive food scandal continues. Six weeks ago, the Swedish furniture store ran into some trouble after its famed meatballs tested positive for horse DNA in several European stores. Then, one week later, it was revealed some of the chain's almond cakes contained a bacteria normally found in shit.
IKEA Recalls Almond Cakes After Realizing They Might Contain Poop
Remember last week when IKEA recalled some meatballs for containing horsemeat, even though horse is a kind of meat, so technically they were still balls of meat, i.e. "meatballs"? Today the Swedish furniture behemoth recalled some almond cakes after tests revealed they contained a bacteria normally found in poop.
IKEA Stops Serving Meatballs After Some Found to Contain Horse Meat
Swedish meatball purveyor Ikea confirmed this morning that it was the latest in an ever-increasing number of European companies to get caught up in the continent's horse meat scandal.
IKEA Australia Offers a Free Crib to Any Baby Born 9 Months From Today
Good news if the only thing keeping you from having a baby was the fear that you might not be able to scrape together $99 to buy a crib from IKEA; IKEA Australia is offering a free crib to any baby who is born nine months from today, on November 14, 2013.
Shearling Coat-Wearing Monkey Found Wandering Around Canadian Ikea
According to various reports, a very fashionably dressed monkey was found wandering around an Ikea in Toronto. Apparently, the monkey, who was wearing a shearling coat and a diaper, was brought to the store by his owners and left in the car while they went inside. But, as you might have guessed from his coat, this…
IKEA Apologizes for Using Forced Labor to Manufacture Its Furniture
Swedish ready-to-assemble furniture maker IKEA today finally acknowledged that a report claiming forced labor had been used in the manufacturing of its products in East Germany during the '70s and '80s was correct.
Saudi Arabia's Alternative to Photoshopping Women Out of Ads: Scribbling All Over Cleavage
The Swedish Metro newspaper reported today that expendable furniture behemoth Ikea had Photoshopped its Saudi Arabian catalogues to completely exclude women from the pages. Scenes that included a mother, a father, and a child in other catalogues, for instance, had been touched up to be just a father and a kid. Other…
Ikea Caught Photoshopping Women Out of Its Saudi Arabian Catalog
Sweden's trade minster issued a formal rebuke of the country's iconic furniture retailer Ikea for airbrushing women out of the Saudi Arabian version of its familiar ready-to-assemble furniture catalog.
IKEA Town: IKEA Building New City District in Hamburg
Just one week after IKEA announced its intention to begin constructing budget hotels across Europe, Sweden's flat-pack furniture king has made public its plans to build an entire city district from scratch in the German city of Hamburg.
NYC’s Hottest Destination for Romance Is: Area Behind IKEA
If you planned to open a bordello in or around an IKEA, where might you do it?
