The Week at Work

By Left Bloc

Reviewing the weekly news and how those stories impact on workers.... more

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The podcast currently has 176 episodes available.

The Week at Work episodes:

January 16, 202287. Aisling Murphy murder, justifying austerity & inflation proofed pay increases
This week Dave, Michelle and Conor discuss:
The murder of Aisling Murphy and what needs to be done

Pat Rabbitte justifying austerity

Facebook moderators bring legal actions to High Court

Public sector workers to demand “inflation-busting pay increases”

Minimum unit pricing

New flexible working

Psychiatric Nurses not getting leave for work related PTSD,

Vacant council homes

Anti-vax alpha male group established
And much more…
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1h 11min
January 09, 202286. NAMA Legacy, Absence Rates & Sinn Fein Top Opinion Poll
This week Dave, Michelle and Conor discuss:
Taxpayers lose as insurers keep millions in state funds cut from Covid pay-outs

Revenue claws back wage-subsidy from parents who used it to pay childminders during lockdown

Absence rates predicted to rise to 30% as businesses urge new close-contact rules

Sinn Fein continue to top polls

Eirgrid doubles down on new data centres for Dublin

Developers get go-ahead not to include creches in apartment schemes

Health workers haven’t been given a “red cent”

“Novak is the Spartacus of the new world who wont tolerate injustice, colonialism and hypocrisy

NAMA profits and the legacy of the bailout

TikTok solicitor advice should be “join a union”
And much more…
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1h 10min
December 19, 202185. Water charges are back, Covid worker protections & Pat Kenny dog walking
This week Dave and Conor discuss:
New Covid predictions

Lack of protections for workers

National Broadband Ireland contract

Pat Kenny walking his dog and the anti-vax chat

Housing policy and neoliberalism

Water charges are back, baby

Absence of water charges effectively adding €6k to homes?

Archaeology company sues Supermac’s over plaza survey

Cryptocurrency ad campaign & the Ponzi scheme that it is

Pandemic profits: claiming state supports and paying dividends to shareholders
And much more…
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1h 3min
December 05, 2021 84. Mise Fosta (#MeToo), NPHET gagging & SIPTU staff concerns
This week Michelle is joined by Anna Ní Nualláin from the Nuall na nÓg podcast and activist with Mise Fosta (#MeToo) & Glenn Fitzpatrick, Left Bloc supporter and Unite the Union member.
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1h 6min
November 28, 2021 83. United Ireland Poll, Data Centre Expansion & New Covid Mutation
This week Dave and Michelle discuss:
🟡 United Ireland poll
🟡 Property and rent increases
🟡 Data centres pretending to solve energy crisis
🟡 New Covid-19 mutation
🟡 Big tech advocating for higher electricity prices and more infrastructure
🟡 Assistance with heating bills?
🟡 Hotel workers living in hotels
🟡 Greens in Government
🟡 Huge profits for privatising government failings in IVF, registering births and outsourcing speed vans
🟡 Children’s hospitals depending on charity
🟡 Anti-vax zealot may face charges after death of Covid-19 patient
🟡 Long-Covid patients ‘gaslighted’
And much more…
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1h 4min
November 21, 202182. Housing Narratives, Covid-19 Failures & Mother & Baby Homes Redress Scheme
This week Dave and Michelle are joined by Emily Duffy from Parable Communications to discuss:
Monday’s Oscar Traynor Road vote

Media censorship of DCC & Housing

Burke asked Dept of Housing to find flaws in ESRI report

Data Centres saving the bees

Covid-19 disconnect between govt, NPHET & workers

Banks criticised for ‘refusing to finance cargo container homes’

Mother & Baby redress scheme and voluntarism of church pay-out

Govt. may support Lynn Ruane’s Bill to compel firms to reveal emissions

Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty verdict

“Foreign investors are neither vultures nor cuckoos, and should be welcomed”
And much more…
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1h 7min
November 14, 202181. Sean Fitzpatrick, John Pat Cunningham & High Speed Middlemen
This week Dave and Conor discuss:
The legacy of Sean Fitzpatrick

John Pat Cunningham and full military honours for his alleged murderer

Taxpayers foot broadband bill for homes already on high-speed Eir

Car users face new tolls, parking fee hikes and reduced road space

Covid numbers spike while govt plans subsidised antigen tests

Academics warn of 12,000-plus cases a day

Non-essential services cancelled in hospital

Flutter (Paddy Power) to self-regulate – after refusing workers lunch breaks

PUP cost drops further as more staff return to work

COP26 is a COP OUT

Labour Party keeps coalition options open with Sinn Fein
And more…
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1h 7min
November 07, 2021 80. Varadkar/Cosgrave, Climate Action & Anglo Irish
This week Michelle and Conor discuss:
Leo Varadkar and Paddy Cosgrave
The Climate Action Plan
Electric Cars, Retrofitting and Low Wages
Rents and Housing
Fintan Drury and Anglo Irish Bank
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1h 5min
October 31, 2021 79. Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, Dept officials who always get it wrong & COP26
This week Dave and Conor discuss more fallout from the special Budget episode, along with: 🟡 Labour Party responds to TWAW Budget special 🟡 Digicel IPO back in play as Denis O’Brien to slash debt by ¢1.4bn 🟡 ESRI report on social housing slammed as ‘detached from reality’ by Finance officials (the same ones behind the banking crisis and austerity) 🟡 Crying with laughter over a mother’s death: soldiers joked about murder on Facebook 🟡 Arlene Foster and her support for Eoghan Harris 🟡 COP26: Hopes grow of deal to save rainforests 🟡 Agriculture, climate, cattle farming and Irish capitalism 🟡 Amazon moves to increase size of new north Dublin data centre 🟡 Sinn Fein policy shift on non-jury courts 🟡 Climate plan to slash car travel by 25% 🟡 ICTU BDC in Belfast and the Industrial Relations Act 1990 And much more...
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1h 8min
October 24, 202178. Sinn Fein Budget II, Illegal Evictions & the National Herd
This week Michelle and Conor respond to criticism of our special Budget analysis, along with discussions on:
Shannon LNG

School struggle for teachers

TD security & protest restrictions

Illegal eviction

National herd

Nightclub regs

Green Party council on data centres

Cat rent, land flipping and Oscar Traynor road

Auctioneering

TikTok priest
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1h 14min

FAQs about The Week at Work:

How many episodes does The Week at Work have?

The podcast currently has 176 episodes available.