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:

May 23, 202157. Palestine, Housing & nationalising Aer Lingus
This week we are joined by Richard Boyd Barrett, TD for Dun Laoghaire and People Before Profit to discuss:
Palestine and ethnic cleansing

State investment in Cuckoo funds

HSE hackers looking for Bitcoin

Council to rent housing estate for more that cost to buy

Ireland’s Best Employers

Renationalise Aer Lingus call from Matt Cooper

Mica protests in Donegal & Mayo

40 homeless deaths so far this year

DBS bye-election

Debenhams
And much more…
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1h 20min
May 15, 2021 56. Palestine, Ballymurphy & homeless TDs
This week we discuss:
🟡 #PalestineUnderAttack
🟡 Ballymurphy massacre & amnesties
🟡 Health system held at ransom
🟡 Suitcases of cash wheeled out for Bóther CEO
🟡 Gardaí perverting course of justice
🟡 Portobello plaza and access to public space
🟡 Communicorp new owner Nazi links
🟡 Sorry sod turning and cuckoo funds
🟡 Edwin Poots is new DUP leader
🟡 Employer hotline for ratting out workers
🟡 COVID vaccinations reduce deaths
🟡 Debenhams & Gardai
...more
1h 16min
May 08, 202155. Eoghan Harris, maternity restrictions & PUP cuts
This week we’re joined by Réada Cronin, Sinn Fein TD for Kildare North, to discuss:
Eoghan Harris, abuse of women online

Maternity restrictions “barbaric & traumatic”

Retailers can’t get workers, apparently

Housing, vultures, REITS, Maynooth

Children adopted abroad

Human trafficking

Taoiseach opposes waiving COVID-19 vaccine patents

Perinatal deaths in African Irish community

Death of homeless man, homeless figures to date this year 11

By-election, Kate O’Connell

Stardust delays and high court threat

British soldiers amnesty, Stormont House agreement, Ballymurphy inquest report

British elections
...more
1h 15min
May 01, 202154. International Workers Day, United Ireland poll & the Great Reopening
This week we’re joined by Conor McCabe (author and researcher) and Aaron Nolan (Communist Party and organiser of the James Connolly Festival) to discuss:
The history of International Workers Day

Trade Unions and hope

WRC not working for workers

1990 industrial relations act

The James Connolly Festival

The Great Reopening - but maternity restrictions promises a ruse

Majority want united Ireland, but won’t pay for it

Unionist Ministers in a United Ireland

Sinn Fein and data – their cookies are out to get you

Ian Wright Racism case

Supermacs refuse CCTV access in injury claims

Covid policing powers

Southeast university & TUI vote ignored

John Waters & Gemma O’Doherty to pay legal costs

Debenhams workers cost liquidation process €3m
...more
1h 22min
April 25, 2021 53. Debenhams, Alt United Ireland, Socialists in the Dáil, Greenwashing, Citizens Assembly
This week we are joined by Sadhbh Mac Lochlainn - People Before Profit organiser and Ber Grogan - community Activist to discuss
- Debenhams & Gardaí strikebreaking
- An Alternative United Ireland
- Socialists in the Dáil
- Secretarial assistants WRC case
- Greenwashing, electric cars and vegans
- Record breaking COVID crisis in Indian
- A people’s vaccine
- Trump tactics in Ireland
- citizens assembly and Gender Equality
...more
1h 16min
April 18, 202152. Evictions, co-living & LeoTheLeak criminal investigation
This week we’re joined by Seamus Farrell, Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) Phibsboro/Glasnevin, to discuss:
Evictions

Co-living

Another data centre in Dublin

Solidarity tax – a bad idea?

Varadkar interviewed under caution

Sinead Mercier profile

Google shifts €63bn profits through Double Irish

Should we re-join the commonwealth?

Top civil servants to get €40k pay increase

Sinn Fein and their “secret” database

Trinity, links to slavery & classism

RCSI charge students up to €56k – the commercialisation of education

RTE’s Claire Byrne show decends into shock jock territory
And much more…
More info on CATU:
https://www.facebook.com/CATU-Phibsboro-Glasnevin-108624190847492
https://twitter.com/CGlasnevin
https://twitter.com/CatuIreland
www.catuireland.org/join
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1h 12min
April 10, 202151. Belfast riots, a new artists union & Amazon union-busting
This week we’re joined by Kerry Guinan, Chair of Praxis, the new artists union & Sean Byers, Trademark Belfast to discuss:
A new union for artists in Ireland

Riots in Belfast & Derry

Amazon union busting

Limerick - Stab city?

Mandatory Hotel Quarantine

Privatised public spaces (Fitzwilliam Square)

Debenhams one year anniversary

Israel refuse to cooperate with ICC

No more €10 flights

E-cars

Empty properties across the country
And much more…
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1h 10min
April 03, 202150. Debenhams workers & Gardai, Covid tourism, and old easter eggs
This week we’re joined by Jane Crowe, ex-Debenhams worker, to discuss:
Gardai remove Debenhams workers from Blanchardstown picket

Covid & 14,000 arrivals in one week

Mandatory quarantine?

Varadkar & Coveney gamble with lives

43 year old easter eggs

Sinn Fein and the mysterious Serbian social media manager

Cervical check claims

Enda Kenny, Golfgate and The Late Late

Children’s shoes are essential… again

RTE apologise for bringing up the past
...more
1h 14min
March 28, 2021 49. Beacon, HSE Dossier, Greens, Climate Bill, Adoption Records, Bessborough, Same Sex Parents Recognition
This week on the Week at Work we are joined by Nem Kearns, Disability and LGBTQI+ advocate and board seceratary with Disabled Women Ireland to discuss
The Beacon Hospital Vaccine scandal
The HSE Dossier on Autistic children and their families
Greens
The Climate Bill
Incomplete Adoption Records
Bessborough
Same Sex Parents Recognition
...more
1h
March 21, 202148. The North is Next?, New United Ireland?, & Male Violence Against Women
This week we’re joined by Kellie O’Dowd, Trade Union Activist from Belfast & Ciaran Campbell, Trade Union Official, to discuss:
The North is Next?

Male Violence against Women

Gardai or defense forces at hotels

EU cut Ireland’s recovery fund by €352m due to GDP

Buyers of high end electric cars to lose €5k government grant

Glanbia shareholders profit while hedge funds attempt to short company

A new United Ireland?

Irish Water and privatisation
...more
1h 5min

FAQs about The Week at Work:

How many episodes does The Week at Work have?

The podcast currently has 176 episodes available.