Ryanair pilots and flight attendants will go on strike in Italy on Friday, Irish and German colleagues will follow on Wednesday 20 December. The company has written a harsh letter to employees threatening fines if they join the strike: in the world before globalization this would have been defined as anti-union behaviour, and should be opposed as such. In recent weeks, heated union disputes have also invested Amazon, in its sorting center in Piacenza, e Ikea, the "green" and consumer-friendly company that fired a working mother of a disabled man.
Meanwhile Facebook broke the front of large ITC companies and agreed to open a permanent establishment in the countries where it operates, recognizing that he will have to pay some taxes. A result that evidently follows the decision of some large European countries, Italy in the lead, to start taxing the revenues in their own country without much compliments. Apple has acknowledged the fine imposed by the European authorities of competition (a double hurrah for European Commissioner Vestager), paying the Irish government (which didn't want it) 13 billion in unpaid taxes.
In short, it is coming to a head the intricate knot of globalization which allows you to skip all the rules, union, tax, environmental and so on. The States and even better the European Union are demonstrating that, as long as one wants, these companies can be traced back to respect their duties as corporate citizens. It doesn't help that some tax and legal havens are actually made up of EU countries – but they too can be brought to reason, as shown the Irish case.
SOURCE: Inpiu.net
°° The author is the general manager of Assonime
