Ikea workers in Danville, Va., aren’t taking Thomas Friedman’s advice. Last week, after a three-year struggle, they chose by a 221-69 vote to unionize Ikea’s first manufacturing plant in the United States. Their move defies conventional wisdom that a competitive future requires a lower-wage, less unionized America. And Ikea’s choices — to build a factory in the old capital of the Confederacy, to deploy America’s best union busters, and ultimately to rein them in — illuminate dynamics that get ignored in debates over outsourcing. Ikea’s example shows how easily European companies can embrace American-style union busting. And it shows a path for workers to fight back.
Always a good idea--not taking Friedman's advice.
http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/ikea/
