USA (WWN).- IKEA's Swedwood Danville, VA, site manager Ken Brown responded to questions raised by a recent LA Times article about working conditions at the plant. According

to an article from the Danville Register & Bee, Brown said that the picture being painted about the company's treatment of its workers is not "the Swedwood he knows." While acknowledging difficulties with getting the company ? which opened in 2008 ? up and running, he says those issues have been acknowledged and the company is moving forward. In the interview with the Danville paper, Brown said that Swedwood does not discriminate ? it treats all its workers fairly and if workers wanted to organize to form a union the company would respect that right. He added that the company has an open-door policy and since he was promoted to site manager in January, employee morale has improved.