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:

October 20, 2021 77. What’s the alternative?
In this special episode, Dave Gibney and Conor McCabe discuss the alternative Budgets produced by Sinn Fein, Social Democrats, Labour Party and People Before Profit.
From domestic violence to public transport, and from the nationalisation of private healthcare to tax, spend and borrow, we explore the offers from each of the opposition parties.
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1h 14min
October 16, 202176. Garda corruption, Hotels v Culture & Comrade Sally Rooney
This week we discuss:
Sally Rooney & Palestine

Gardaí corruption

Hotels v Culture: Cobblestone & Merchants Arch

Cooking up sustainable solutions with Landrover

Uncertain reopening next week

Call to continue remote working

Blaming young people for upcoming energy crisis

Dara Quigley apology

Blaming PUP for not attracting workers

Dunnes Stores petition
And much more…
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1h 15min
October 09, 2021 75. Pre-Budget, Corporation Tax Changes & Climate Surveys
This week we're joined by Ciaran Nugent from the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) to discuss Budget 2022, corporation tax changes and inequality, among other issues.
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1h 14min
September 27, 2021 74. Affordable Housing, Corporation Tax & Paying for Data Centres
This week we’re joined by Lorna Bogue & Michael Rafferty from An Rabharta Glas – Green Left to discuss:
Alternative Housing Plans
Repair and lease scheme’s failure to deliver homes, except Waterford
Corporation Tax Plans
Data Centres & Energy Price Rises
20th anniversary of Martin O’Hagan’s Murder
Government rewards for frontline workers
And much more…
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1h 19min
September 18, 202173. Presidents & Partitions, Pensions & PRSI & Bad Bosses
This week Michelle and Conor discuss:
Michael D. Higgins & partition celebrations

Bruton, Briton and class war

Return to office

Crisis in care

Pensions

Worker wins sexual harassment case

Glenveagh Properties fanboy piece

Enterprise Ireland to Cairn Homes trajectory

Land Rover and Brian O’Driscoll solve the climate crisis
And much more…
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1h 3min
September 12, 2021 72. Varadkar’s Populism, Slaintecare Resistance & Sinn Fein Tops Polls
This week Dave and Conor discuss the weeks news and the weekend newspapers with stories ranging from Leo Varadkars “populism” in seeking tax cuts and pensions increases, to Sinn Fein topping the Red C and B&A polls.
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1h 7min
September 05, 202171. Housing For All, Piglet Gate & Harney’s Healthcare
This week we discuss:
Housing for All

Property prices set to soar (again)

Wage suppression of construction workers

Ministers use app to wipe texts

Piglet gate

Mother and baby homes crimes

Bias in Northern Irish media re: United Ireland?

4,500 LC blocked from college annually?

EU Army

Glorifying Irish army rangers who carry logs in Afghanistan

State may sell off more of its AIB shares

Trucks avoiding tolls by passing through Abbeyleix

Declan Ganley shelves plan for respirator as he waits for worse pandemic

Mary Harney has a vision for our healthcare system

USA (Pot) lectures China (Kettle) on climate change
And much more…
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1h 11min
August 28, 202170. Spock Lightyear, Unite’s New Gen Sec & Cocaine is ‘Everywhere’
This week we’re joined by Stiofán Ó Nualláin from Trademark Belfast to discuss:
Sharon Graham elected Gen Sec of Unite

Four weeks to Covid guidelines lifted

High level of Covid sees Ireland classified as ‘dark red’

Cocaine is ‘everywhere’ and also ‘not everywhere’

Swimming Cows

Ireland welcomes Afghan refugees

Homes up for raffle to fund schools

Social housing to be commodified?

Gaeltacht homes on hold

Pedestrianisation extended

Charity chairman steps down

Luas and tolls losses supplemented by state

RTE staff salaries
And much more…
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1h 10min
August 21, 202169. Arts Council Ads, Insurance Cartels & Privatised Healthcare
This week we discuss:
COVID cases and the GAA

Arts Council ads invoke systemic racism comparisons

Brokers aid insurance hikes

Galway horror crash

900,000 on hospital waiting lists

Pensioners travel north for eye operations

Covid inspections of hospitality sector

First recorded rainfall on Greenland’s ice sheet

Industrial action on the cards in DAA

Bus Drivers reject proposals

Owen Keegan and removal of homeless tents

Woman “having affair” with chimp banned from visiting him

Afghanistan, the US and Saudi Arabia

Bolsonaro fanning the flames on Amazon destruction
And much more…
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1h 8min
August 15, 202168. Climate breakdown, Energy Shortages & IDA gifts to millionaires
This week we’re joined by John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queens University, to discuss:
Climate breakdown & the IPCC report

Seaweed solutions, electric cars, robot trees and the free Luas

€500m state gift to housing developers

Dublin bus workers reject erosion of working conditions

Enterprise Ireland & the IDA – gifts to millionaires

Individual carbon footprint lie

Irish Water & housing

The Taliban, a US intervention

23 years after Omagh bombing
And much more…
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1h 16min

FAQs about The Week at Work:

How many episodes does The Week at Work have?

The podcast currently has 176 episodes available.