December 5, 2013
Don't Shop at IKEA this Holiday Season
The TSSU along with Unions throughout BC urges all members of the SFU community to NOT patronize either IKEA this holiday season until the management at IKEA stop using dirty tactics like locking out their workers to financially starve them into accepting massive pay and benefit cuts.
How you can support IKEA workers:
These are our neighbours - our friends - and they are going through serious financial hardships to remain strong and ensure all future workers are paid the same and have the same quality of work as current workers do. In Solidarity!
A message from our brothers and sisters in Richmond:
IKEA locked out its Richmond location employees on May 13th – more than 6.5 months ago – to force major concessions on its workers. IKEA makes billions of dollars a year in profits, is privately owned by the Kamprad family who is one of the richest families in the world and they want more!
The IKEA workers are not seeking outrageous demands, they just want to keep what they had – the SAME wage structure, the SAME benefits package and basically the SAME contract.
Since this labour dispute started, IKEA has been in breach of the law for using replacement workers. IKEA also hired a private security firm to video and use listen devices to intimidate its once valued workers. Are we not living in a democracy?
Is this how you would want to be treated by your employer?
How you can support IKEA workers:
Tell this company to come back to the bargaining table and negotiate so the workers can go back to work!
Respectfully,
The IKEA Teamsters Local 213 Employees.
More info: www.teamsters213.org
In the news: http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/06/12/Richmond-Ikea-Labour-Dispute/
