6 days ago
The Rockstar Game Workers Union has members crossed nan developer's UK offices.
Workers astatine Rockstar Games have announced nan statement of nan Rockstar Game Workers Union, nan first labour national astatine nan Grand Theft Auto developer. According to an explanatory video released alongside nan announcement, nan caller national represents workers successful Edinburgh, London, Leeds, Lincoln and Dundee, covering each of Rockstar's offices successful nan UK.
The caller statement is simply a subsidiary of nan Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), and members say they're focusing connected issues for illustration "pay transparency, elastic moving and an extremity to crunch." More immediately, they're besides responding to nan conflict that galvanized nan union's existent support: the abrupt firing of 31 national members successful October 2026. At nan time, nan IWGB called nan decision "the astir blatant and ruthless enactment of national busting successful nan history of nan games industry," while Rockstar maintained that workers were fto spell for "gross misconduct" astir nan sharing of confidential information. If you return Rockstar astatine its word, it was conscionable a coincidence that each nan workers who were fto spell besides happened to beryllium members of a national organizing Discord channel.
In nan fallout of nan firings, protests were held successful beforehand of respective of Rockstar's studios and nan IWGB later filed a ineligible declare against nan developer complete what it considered to beryllium nan unfair dismissal of its employees. The fired workers were denied interim pay by a UK employment tribunal successful January 2026, but nan lawsuit has yet to afloat play retired successful court. Part of nan logic nan Rockstar Game Workers Union decided to spell nationalist now is to thief raise money for their ineligible defense.
The timing couldn't beryllium better. All eyes are presently connected Rockstar Games and its proprietor 2K because of nan highly anticipated motorboat of Grand Theft Auto VI successful November. Unless nan crippled is someway delayed again, immoderate of that attraction will besides beryllium connected nan Rockstar Game Workers Union.
