WHERE DOES THAT FUCKING SCREW GO?:

Global flat-pack furniture company Ikea says new information has prompted its directors to reverse a decision to pay 6 million euros (A$9.9 million) into a special fund to help compensate victims of forced labour who produced a range of products for the Swedish company in the former Communist state of East Germany. (main picture)

The global company recently said it would make the donation as its response to an internal investigation it commissioned which revealed political prisoners and other inmates of East German jails were forced to build items for Ikea during the Cold War.

The practice is believed to have ended in only the 1980s, just a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of East German and the Soviet Union.

But an Ikea spokesperson, Alan Key, said since agreeing to the compensation payment Ikea directors had received fresh information causing them to reconsider their initial decision.

“Their doubts about the payment arose after they were given information that wasn’t available to them at the meeting when they agreed to the compensation deal,” Mr Key said.

“The new information shows the type of products that were being built for Ikea under a subcontracting arrangement with the then Trabant car company based in East Germany.

“The directors had a quick look at the products and felt they were basically all crap and the workers who built them didn’t deserve any compensation.

“For instance there was the Trabant bookcase and the Trabant plant stand. (below)

“The East German workers also turned out the Trabant television unit – TV not included of course. (below)

“Then there was the Trabant portable barbecue which was really just a cover story for cars that caught fire. (below)

“Luckily it only ever happened when the driver tried to turn the engine on,” Mr Key said.

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