ADHD Is My Media Training

London Met Research Assistant Alison MacKinnon joins the committee to talk about layoffs at the university. Grok gets cancelled, UTAW wins big, and we decide whether speaking Bri'ish is a protected characteristic.

• Times Higher Education - “Union brands London Met cuts an ‘act of institutional vandalism’”: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/union-brands-london-met-cuts-act-institutional-vandalism or "archived" link: https://archive.is/hikiu
• People Make Games - "Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence": https://youtu.be/dnuipPQDd_w?si=BqdEG2JF3SFMAjTq
• CWU.ie - Covalen: https://www.cwu.ie/2026/01/14/cwu-press-release-covalen/ 
• My Co-Worker Pretended to be British for 3 Years: https://www.reddit.com/r/coworkerstories/comments/1l3idhy/my_coworker_pretended_to_be_british_for_3_years/
• What you need to know about lying on your CV: https://bsquarelaw.co.uk/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-complexities-of-lying-on-your-cv/
• Geordie stroke victim now 'speaks like Jamaican': https://youtu.be/JF56cDpB0r0?si=L7w-agNGRJqIxS5E, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jul/04/health.healthandwellbeing
• Follow UCU London Met and UCU London: https://x.com/ucu_londonmet, https://x.com/uculondon, https://uculondonregion.wordpress.com/, https://www.facebook.com/share/195yYeYbqb/?mibextid=wwXIfr,
• Follow Alison MacKinnon https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-mackinnon-317a63236?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
  
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Chapters

• 0:00 Abstract
• 9:12 UCU - Academics on the Firing Line
• 27:14 UTAW - Win at Mitie
• 29:04 IWGB - Rockstar Followup
• 35:28 CWU but it's the other CWU - Covalen Strike
• 38:34 Grokdate
• 44:52 My Co-Worker Pretended to be British
• 1:08:19 The Motion