The Week at Work

By Left Bloc

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How many episodes does The Week at Work have?

The podcast currently has 176 episodes available.

The Week at Work episodes:

March 14, 202147. #LeoTheLeak Garda investigation, Redundancy & PUP, the cost of COVID
This week we’re joined by Joan Collins TD from Dublin South Central, to discuss:
#LeotheLeak Garda investigation

AstraZeneca suspension

Sarah Everard & Met Police

Data centres to starve us of energy

Counting the cost of COVID

Councils spend €50m on housing homeless in pandemic

George Nkencho funeral

Davy corruption

Hospital waiting lists increase by 34%

Workers pay for pandemic

Redundancy & PUP complications
...more
1h 9min
March 07, 202146. Capitalism, CETA, Hunger Strikes & united Ireland?
This week we’re joined by Tommy McKearney, activist and former hunger striker, to discuss:
Covid vaccine rollout and patents

CETA and the Green Party

Davy Stockbroker fallout

Johnny Ronan, high rises & NAMA

Data centres and fossil fuel usage

Exploring Irish unity or the British union

Loyalists ignored by Taoiseach

Pontins & racism

Fictional beef barons & honest GDP growth

Talking about the Hunger Strikes
And much more…
...more
1h 16min
February 28, 202145. RISE join PBP, Far-Right Violence & Inequality
This week we’re joined by Brid Smith TD from Solidarity/People Before Profit to discuss:
Far right violence

Garda Commissioner lies

Paul Murphy & RISE join People Before Profit

Inequality & the manipulation of public discourse

FAI asks for share of betting tax to clear €70m debt

White collar crime & Fine Gael candidates

New tax break for remote workers?

Stardust funding has been released

Direct Provision White Paper

Mother & Baby Homes
...more
1h 19min
February 21, 202144. We can be Zero, Mother & Baby Home tapes found & Moyross development
This week we’re joined by Grace Dyas, Activist and Artist, to discuss:
We can be Zero

Class & the illusion “we’re all in this together”

Taxing essential workers

Mother & Baby Home tapes

Moyross development

Shared equity loan schemes

Israel destroys Irish aid to Palestinian village community

Digital tax on social media firms to support journalism

Insurance Bill
...more
1h 26min
February 14, 202143. Stardust 40th anniversary, Revenue bill workers for employer’s subsidy and a United Ireland?
This week we’re joined by Stiofán Ó Nualláin from Trademark Belfast to discuss:
The Northern Ireland protocol

Death threats to Sunday World journalists

Political policing

Covid supports for business, paid for by workers

FBD says pub court decision is limited to specific policies

Inspections into bogus self-employed workers in RTE and meat plants

Irish Water and workers demand for a referendum

Quarantine hotels and half-arsed Covid plans

Stardust 40th Anniversary
...more
53min
February 06, 202142. Mother & Baby Homes, Social Welfare Changes and Education during Covid
This week Dave and Clare are joined by Gary Gannon TD, Social Democrats spokesperson on Education and Social Welfare, to discuss:
Poverty in Education and Class Advantage

Leaving Cert Assessments during Covid

Personal Injury Claims and the “Benevolent Insurance Industry”

Lyndsey Bennett, Cervical Check

Knife Crime and Poverty in Dublin (and everywhere)

Mother & Baby Homes recordings destroyed and author won't appear at Children's Committee

Chief of Tokyo 2020 organising committee - women talk too much in meetings

FBD ruling on pubs

Changes to Social Welfare System

CETA Trade Agreement

Garda checks

Covid vaccines

Land Development Agency Proposals

Debenhams workers mark 300 days on strike
...more
1h 11min
January 29, 2021 41. Living WITHOUT Covid - The Australian & New Zealand experience
In this special episode we talk to Clancy Dobbyn, Government advisor in Melbourne, Australia and Joe Carolan, Union organiser in Auckland, New Zealand, about the #ZeroCovid strategy and what life is like right now for them.
Pubs open, restaurants functioning, gigs and festivals all happening, and much more.
...more
43min
January 24, 202140. Zero Covid Strategy, People Smuggling & Mel Corry
This week we’re joined by Julien Mercille, UCD academic and a member of ISAG (Independent Scientific Advisory Group), along with two regular participants, activists Glen Fitzpatrick and Michelle Byrne, to discuss:
Mel Corry

An All-Ireland Zero Covid Strategy

Gardai enforcing travel restrictions – on people LEAVING the country

Belgium bans all non-essential travel

George Osborne and northern Unionists

George Nkencho shooting

Four Irish jailed for people-smuggling

Varadkar pledges support for businesses

State to reclaim Rosslare Port from Britain, like, wtf?

Amazon hypocrisy – attempts to stop workers using the mail to unionize

Aer Lingus lobbies against quarantine rules

John Delaney and the FAI

Directly elected Mayors

Green Party discuss support for CETA, despite party policy

The national herd size has increased

Russia’s revolt

Goodbye Trump, Hello Biden

Michelle Byrne: Gold rush for COVID vax

Saoirse McHugh profile
...more
1h 7min
January 10, 202139. Covid hindsight, Trump mania & George Nkencho
In our first episode of 2021 we're joined by activist and author Conor McCabe to discuss:
George Nkencho's death, mental health failures & racism

Trump & the American Revolution II

Will Trump pardon himself?

The "darkest day of Covid" - "a price worth paying"

Vaccination rollout

Working from home allowances

The Leaving Cert & Norma Foley

Boeing fine

Plans to cut property tax in rural Ireland

Rising house prices in rural Ireland

OECD warn against austerity
...more
1h 17min
December 17, 2020 38. The Debenhams Strike with Gillian McSweeney from Cork
Gillian McSweeney, ex-Debenhams worker and Mandate Trade Union member talks to us about their 9 month strike with the company.
Almost 1,000 workers were made redundant back in April 2020 and their employer failed to pay them their agreed redundancy package. Gillian talks about her experiences on the picket line and how the strike has impacted on her politically.
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44min

FAQs about The Week at Work:

How many episodes does The Week at Work have?

The podcast currently has 176 episodes available.