When workers at an Ikea in Stoughton, Massachusetts expressed interest
in forming a union, the company responded with an illegal anti-union
crackdown that culminated in locking workers into a conference room and
forcing them to watch anti-union slideshows that workers described as
“scaremongering”.
An international union group filed a complaint against Ikea with the
Dutch Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, citing
similar incidents in Dublin, Ireland and Lisbon, Portugal.
The lock-in meetings were mandatory on pain of termination and lasted
for hours every day in the runup to a union vote; an employee who tried
to photograph one of the slides was kicked out of the hall.
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