A colossal difference exists between IKEA laborers in Sweden and Virginia:
Vacation Days Per Year Salary Per Hour IKEA workers in Sweden 5 weeks off $19/hour IKEA workers in America 4 days off selected by workers, 8 days selected by management $8/hour
But some IKEA employees work for even lower wages and have no benefits, as IKEA draws one-third of its workers from temporary-staffing agencies. These conditions have caused Bill Street, who tried to organize IKEA workers with the machinists union, to say that it’s “ironic that Ikea looks on the U.S. and Danville the way that most people in the U.S. look at Mexico.” http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/11/ikea-thwarts-unions/
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