Ikea Asks for Help in Cuban Prison Labor Probe

June 26, 2012  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in Furniture Retailing on June 27, 2012 from http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/26/2869425/ikea-asks-for-help-in-cuban-prison.html

Furniture giant IKEA has asked for help from anyone with information regarding a 1987 agreement between government enterprises in Cuba and the former East Germany to manufacture furniture in Cuban prison workshops for the Swedish firm.

A telephone hotline has been established in Germany for people ?who want to contribute to clarifying the production conditions among our suppliers? in the former communist-ruled German Democratic Republic, said an IKEA announcement Monday.

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