Last week, IKEA workers in Stoughton, Massachusetts asked the company to recognize their request to unionize. Today, those workers went out on strike. IKEA still has not responded to their request, for some reason.

Yesterday, a large group of workers at an IKEA store in Massachusetts told the company they want to unionize. IKEA’s response so far? Nothing.

Sensing the way the political winds are blowing, unassembled furniture warehouse Ikea is following the lead of retailers like Walmart and raising the wages of its employees. Will that be enough?

Art is whatever people think it is, and what people think it is depends an awful lot on context: For example, whether the work is being displayed in an art museum by a dapper bloke in glasses and a vest, or whether it's sitting alongside other copies of the exact same print in an IKEA, with a listed price of €10.

You know what would be a fun way to spend your Saturday night? Playing hide and seek with a huge group of Dutch people at an IKEA in Amsterdam. IKEA is wicked stressful, and that stress could be alleviated with some childhood revelry among plastic laptops and display couches. IKEA's bosses, however, have to disagree.

The nearly week-long hunt for a missing Shanghai boy came to an end Sunday when the 12-year-old was found inside an IKEA store. Peng Yijian ran away from home last week after an argument with his mother, Shanghai Daily reported.

A woman who lifted up a tarp inside a church in southern Sweden was shocked to discover a stash of plastic IKEA bags filled with human bones, The Local reports.

If there was anything in our present world that most closely resembled a futuristic dystopia, it would be IKEA.

Enjoy your BILLY bookcases and HEMNES coffee tables, because IKEA is using one percent of the world's wood every year to make them. But apparently one in ten Europeans are conceived in an IKEA bed every year. So, you know, the circle of life: the IKEA giveth and the IKEA taketh away.

For once, IKEA is in the news for something other than a poop or horse meat scandal: Eight years ago, Shirley Stewart and Berkely “Rashid” Smith met in the framing department of a New Jersey IKEA. When Smith proposed earlier this year, the couple decided to tie the knot in the same store, in the same section.

IKEA's massive food scandal continues. Six weeks ago, the Swedish furniture store ran into some trouble after its famed meatballs tested positive for horse DNA in several European stores. Then, one week later, it was revealed some of the chain's almond cakes contained a bacteria normally found in shit.

Remember last week when IKEA recalled some meatballs for containing horsemeat, even though horse is a kind of meat, so technically they were still balls of meat, i.e. "meatballs"? Today the Swedish furniture behemoth recalled some almond cakes after tests revealed they contained a bacteria normally found in poop.

Swedish meatball purveyor Ikea confirmed this morning that it was the latest in an ever-increasing number of European companies to get caught up in the continent's horse meat scandal.

Good news if the only thing keeping you from having a baby was the fear that you might not be able to scrape together $99 to buy a crib from IKEA; IKEA Australia is offering a free crib to any baby who is born nine months from today, on November 14, 2013.

According to various reports, a very fashionably dressed monkey was found wandering around an Ikea in Toronto. Apparently, the monkey, who was wearing a shearling coat and a diaper, was brought to the store by his owners and left in the car while they went inside. But, as you might have guessed from his coat, this wasn't your regular, run-of-the-mill monkey, content to stay in the car while his owners had all the shopping fun. As the Globe and Mail reports:

Swedish ready-to-assemble furniture maker IKEA today finally acknowledged that a report claiming forced labor had been used in the manufacturing of its products in East Germany during the '70s and '80s was correct.

The Swedish Metro newspaper reported today that expendable furniture behemoth Ikea had Photoshopped its Saudi Arabian catalogues to completely exclude women from the pages. Scenes that included a mother, a father, and a child in other catalogues, for instance, had been touched up to be just a father and a kid. Other settings eliminated people altogether rather than include a woman in the image. Naturally, many people were furious about the perceived misogyny, especially when Ikea, through its charitable donations, attempts to put on a very pro-woman stance.

Sweden's trade minster issued a formal rebuke of the country's iconic furniture retailer Ikea for airbrushing women out of the Saudi Arabian version of its familiar ready-to-assemble furniture catalog.

Just one week after IKEA announced its intention to begin constructing budget hotels across Europe, Sweden's flat-pack furniture king has made public its plans to build an entire city district from scratch in the German city of Hamburg.

If you planned to open a bordello in or around an IKEA, where might you do it?