Hell could freeze as Ryanair sits down with the unions

Ryanair's famous CEO, Michael O 'Leary, said that hell should freeze or that he would cut off both arms before negotiating with the unions.

Well, following Ryanair's initiative to abandon The permanent policy of not recognizing unions last year – what O 'Leary later claimed to be his idea – the head of a free enterprise could soon be sitting at their table.

Thousands of vacationers are facing the disruption next week. Ryanair pilots in Ireland voted for the strike next Thursday. This could be the first in a series of stops by members of the Irish Air Line Pilots Association (Ialpa), part of the Fórsa syndicate

The row is on the l & # 39; seniority, with pilots seeking a system covering basic allocation and transfers. Unions complain that there is no transparent system for these issues.

To make matters worse for the airline, the conflicts spread to other jurisdictions, with German pilots. Members of the Ryanair VC union polling stations on union action following the failure of the talks on improving wages and conditions.

Elsewhere, crews in Portugal, Belgium and Spain are planning 48-hour strikes on 25 and 26 July. . The cabin crew in Italy, the second largest territory of the airline, will strike on 25 July.

This is a high stakes game for all concerned, with strike threats in one of Ryanair's busiest months. transport to the region of 13 million pbadengers.

With this in mind, talks are planned with the aim of avoiding action. O 'Leary could well sit on this one, having recently stated that the pilots "have no hard work"; are "precious about themselves" and "full of their own importance".

Things did not go well either, with a row where the meeting should take place by delaying things. Ryanair wants to meet at its headquarters in Swords, near Dublin Airport, while Ialpa wants a neutral place

Separately, Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, is investigating whether Ryanair has received illegal state aid from regional and local authorities in France.

According to Vestager, better known in these regions for ordering the state to recover 13 billion euros of taxes from Apple, Ryanair has received substantial payments from an agency to promote Montpellier on its website. The Brexit Woes

Up to now, the focus on Brexit was on the likely damage that would be suffered by Irish exporters when Britain finally took leave, but a new report suggests that the carnage will not stop there.

conducted by economists John FitzGerald and Edgar Morgenroth for the Irish Institute of European Affairs (IIEA), examined the impact of Brexit on Irish imports.

He found that the lic grocery sector could be the hardest hit with more than two-thirds of the products on the shelves of Irish supermarkets manufactured in the UK or imported across Great Britain . He suggested that customs controls would be "extremely disruptive".

It is therefore equally normal that things have stabilized economically. A further surge in corporate tax revenues in the first half of 2018 led the government to exceed its budget targets for the year.

Concerns about the state's reliance on corporate taxes have been repeatedly reported. The figures of the Exchequer for the first half of the year show that she accounted for 16 percent of our total tax revenues with a record amount of 4 billion euros, or 9, 1 percent more than the goal.

About 40 percent of revenue comes from just 10 companies. It is understood that these include technology giants Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Google and Oracle.

Overall, the figures show that the government collected just under 25 billion euros in taxes in the first half, up 5%. Recent Live Register shows have shown that the number of claims for compensation has dropped to its lowest level in 10 years in June. Separate figures from the OSC showed that the official unemployment rate fell to a low of 5.1% after the accident.

Growth in the services and manufacturing sectors reached five-month highs, according to Investec. This is only the consumer confidence that has spoiled the party, falling to its lowest level in 13 months on global political uncertainty.

Meanwhile, the "living wage", a non-statutory rate of pay set by a group of researchers and academics. increased by 20 cents from the hour to € 11.90 to account for the rising cost of rental housing in Dublin and in other urban areas.

Housing Crisis

There remain major problems in the housing market of the state. The European Commission warned this week in its latest post-program monitoring report that the housing shortage and significant increases in real estate prices pose a major risk to the Irish economy.

ineffective and contributed "little to contain price increases". Rental inflation was "well above" the 4% prescribed by the pressure zones on rents

A separate report from Myhome.ie, which belongs to The Irish Times and to Davy, stockbroker. The report, which concerned the second quarter of 2018, indicated that the median price charged for new homes nationally was now 270,000 euros, while in Dublin, it was reaching €. 384, 000. Prices rose 7.2 percent in the year, the lowest rate of inflation in two years.

The problems of supply in the market well at the bichon for builders, who already clean. The business figure of the top 50 companies in the industry increased 12 percent to 6.72 billion euros last year, according to Construction Magazine.

One, Bovale, is selling a site at Kilbad, Co Kildare, with a capacity of 400 new homes, to developer Glenveagh Properties in a deal estimated at more than 20 million euros.