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What IKEA Doesn’t Want You to Know

More Perfect Union | January 26, 2026



300 IKEA workers who supply furniture to stores across the country are on strike. IKEA brought in $2 billion this year, but corporate removed key contract protections for workers. Now many workers are living paycheck-to-paycheck, while management calls them “family.”
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  5. @burningdust

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    Greed and selfishness is at an all time high. Sure the big bad corps are the most obvious but if most people woke up tomorrow a billionaire at the helm of a successful company damn right they’d gladly do whatever it took to make more.

  15. @BrendanPNW

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I worked many union jobs. The laziest worker and the worker everyone else wishes to get fired is the union worker who talked about the importance of Seniority in the union contract. Sorry if you can't work like you did at 20 but maybe it's time you look for a new job instead of having others pick up your slack.

  18. @chrisbrommer275

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    There’s a USA law that states a company must offer the shareholders a return on their investment first and foremost. The return to investors is the whole point of it all. Mr.Ford a hundred years ago wanted to give his workers huge raises and benefits so ALL would benefit from this automotive bounty. But the Dodge brothers weren’t having it. They took Mr.Ford to court and it was ruled the Shareholder divine and all good things to flow that way. Workers be damned!
    And so it was.
    In the USA, the worker was to be forever damned.
    Let’s sharpen the guillotine 😮😢😅😂😊

  19. @StevieHensley-o1g

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    You should cover the family court system next. Specifically , I think you should cover grandparents visitation rights , de facto custodian, Guardian ad Litems, Department of child services, and courts receiving federal kickbacks for enforcing child support under Title IV-D. The family court system claims to make decisions based on what’s in the best interest of children , but truthfully what they prioritized is profit.

  22. @Anna-xp4yz

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    IKEA is a Swedish company. It has boosted about it's global Swedish rights for workers.
    Since Daddy (Ingvar) died, the billionaire kids got greedy. Shame!
    Just more billionaire greed

  23. @buckwheatandhoney

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I know it's not the worker's fault because when inflation goes up, workers require a pay raise, BUT this was the reason why major manufacturers and automakers left the USA to set up in Canada or Mexico; it was so they could sell their products to consumers for a reasonable price. Trump wanting to bring industry to the US is ridiculous! I'm an ex-blue-collar worker, but, thinking like a CEO, I wouldn't even consider moving my large operation to the US and building new facilities because I'd have to answer to the shareholders. The Shareholders are interested in profit, and moving to another country and hiring higher-priced workers would get a no from shareholders!

  29. @tigarlady

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    They can employ the lots of 'new comers' there… They did said they brought them as 'cheap labour'!? Then put this ex-workers on high benefits, instead of the 'new comers', then they will have the possibility of justifying the m….y they get now.

  32. @icalrox

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I’m glad Perryville is unionized. IKEA has scared most of its retail employees to death about unionization. IKEA Brooklyn needs to unionize.

  33. @unknownuser3926

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I worked at ikea for 5 years, it got worse as time went on, every manager was a petty tyrant and thought they were god. I was forced to deal with biohazards without protection, they made me climb into a food waste dumpster and handle returns with pretty much every bodily fluid but I wasn't given rubber gloves.

    I went to HR so many times over my managers mistreatment of me and my coworkers but they didn't care and fired me without notice a week after their last "investigation" into him concluded. Horrible company.

  34. @Timkittie

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    Ah yes, the great and wonderful Scandinavian countries. Look at what they do to their fellows in the global north, now imagine how the global south is going through it for centuries!

  36. @elin_

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I'm from Ikeas motherland. I don't think Ingvar (the founder) would like this at all.. He was quite charitable (for a rich person). Would be really sad if the whole company just tanked like this everywhere just because Ingvar isn't around anymore..

    The way these workers are being treated is NOT swedish in the slightest.. I expect better from Ikea.

  37. @tonaka86

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I worked for JYSK, 4 years, in a shop. The results are: they slowly steal life, healthy from you. When you are on work, you must to do work for 2 people on the same time. Best is change the work. Nothing you can do, other.

  39. @chrisk7626

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I'm going to tell you unless you have a trade skill. This is going to keep happening to you over and over again. Furthermore my father worked large and small and everything in between and everywhere he works they told him he was a valued member of the team or family etcetera in the end you're all expendable. The only way for job Assurance in this country is working for yourself. What I do agree with on this video is hiring person for General laborers BS. Telling you one day you're doing this and the next thing you're doing that and the jobs aren't even equal in quality. They started doing that over 20 years ago. When you work Union usually work a contract and that's all you can do is what you signed for on the job application. Well I work for the city of Los Angeles I was a professional Gardener if I so much as did anything remotely like the other trades work I would get written up. That's the way it should be there. Clearly defined lines on which you're hired upon.

  40. @clarkclarke

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    No IKEA for me …..
    These companies make enough money to compensate their employees properly …. why and how are they able to continue to pay the CEOs???? How is that more important ….
    I will not go to IKEA

    Thank you for this

  41. @umustwantme

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    It sucks when you work an hour to buy a loaf of bread, 12 eggs and tub of butter. Its more the fault of unregulated gov't spending than the business, but affects the workers the most. Hopefully Trump can get ish turned around! Hate to imagine, 4 years from now, had Harris won.

  42. @Bandhari-Wickette

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    Wage theft is the most prevalent form of theft in the country.
    Edit: This is what needs to happen at every single business in the country that refuses to pay a wage that matches the cost of living and instead defaults to minimum wage. If all of us did this, which is over half the country, we could effectively shut everything down within a week, because we're the ones working the jobs that are actually necessary. No cashiers available, nobody gets food because they can't buy it or gas, or anything. No maintenance, janitors, etcetera. It would take maybe a couple of weeks before things really started moving. We need to set a date and get together in every major city and live stream it while making sure the main speakers all have a way to contact each other in the other cities, and we have to do it peacefully. We need only look to Rosa Parks and her strong American brethren to know that we can do this, we can effect change.

  43. @Shadow-vb9rq

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    This is a joke, right? American complain about the corporations billionaires, but yet they put billionaires in government billionaire president i say shut t f up stupid dumb fs.

  45. @bonniebrown6960

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    Used to people got a job and the longer they stayed with that company the more respect you were shown. You got raises, Christmas bonuses, sick leave, paid vacations, health and life insurance. You retired from those jobs. Nowadays, it's not like that anymore. I had two my Aunts that worked for Sears for over 30 years. They sold the company and in order for them to get their 401k's they had to train the foreigners or else they didn't get what they paid into that company. There's so many companies that do their employees so dirty these days. This is not the American way anymore. It won't be long before all the foreigners " illegal immigrants " takes Americans jobs. They have ruined this country.

  46. @jameshancock7285

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    I worked for a company that didn't care about seniority. They brought new hires onto day shift instead of moving up any from nights. When layoff time came, many of the new hires stayed on while those with years got cut. Then they wanted us to sign a document that stated we had spoken to an attorney before we signed. I didn't.

  49. @bookerdooley6739

    January 26, 2026 at 4:01 am

    2.99 to 3.99 for a gallon of milk talk when Trump takes over tell what your paying then have that same energy dont lose and lets revisit this conversation down the road 🤔

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