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We, the 250 participants at the UNI Europa Commerce Conference in Madrid on 9 and 10 June 2011, discussed information presented during the conference on anti-union and anti-worker attitude and activities by IKEA.



We strongly believe that everyone has the right to be organised in a union, to have fair wages, good conditions and a safe and clean working environment.



It is time that IKEA puts the ILO core labour conventions into practice. If IKEA is able to impose the same concept and appearance to all IKEA stores, all the way down to meatballs in its restaurants worldwide, the company should be able to apply the same principle for a global labour relations policy, union and bargaining rights.



We demand IKEA to immediately enter into serious negotiations with UNI Global Union for a global agreement which guarantees basic worker and union rights. Such an agreement must include union access to the workers, the right to organise without opposition and full collective bargaining rights for all IKEA workers at IKEA stores and distribution centres and ensure the same rights for all workers at IKEA contractors for cleaning, security, printing and other services.