220 Rockstar staff sign letter to management calling for "immediate reinstatement" of fired workers

"It’s heartwarming to spot truthful galore of our colleagues supporting america and holding absorption to account"

Over 200 unit astatine GTA 6 developers Rockstar North person signed a missive to absorption calling for the "immediate reinstatement" of 31 workers fired precocious by the company. Rockstar claimed they fired these staffers for "gross misconduct", subsequently accusing them of sharing confidential info publicly. UK national the IWGB, of which the fired unit were members, person accused Rockstar of national busting and filed ineligible claims against the company.

The national person besides held protests extracurricular Rockstar North and Take-Two's UK offices.

Now, according to the IWGB, a missive signed by 220 unit astatine Edinburgh-based Rockstar North has been delivered to the studio's management. The missive calls for the "immediate reinstatement" of the fired workers, and condemns the determination to footwear them retired of their jobs successful the archetypal place.

"It’s heartwarming to spot truthful galore of our colleagues supporting america and holding absorption to relationship – during a play wherever Rockstar privation america to consciousness scared, my brave erstwhile colleagues are marching consecutive up to our boss’s doorway and demanding our voices are heard and not backing down," said an anonymous subordinate of the fired Rockstar unit successful the union's property release. "It’s wide to everyone adjacent to this concern that this is simply a blatant, unapologetic enactment of vicious national busting. Rockstar employs truthful galore talented crippled developers, each of whom are important to making the games we enactment out."

Meanwhile, IWGB organiser Fred Carter called the firings an "Amazon-style enactment of union-busting unprecedented successful the games industry". More national protests against Rockstar are planned successful the precise adjacent future, with an 8AM rally extracurricular Take Two’s London bureau and a 4PM CET protestation extracurricular the company’s Paris office - the second staged by the French STJV (Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo) national - acceptable to instrumentality spot connected November 14th. There's besides a protestation acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine 6PM connected November 18th extracurricular the Scottish Parliament successful Holyrood, Edinburgh, timed to coincide with a cross-party parliamentary radical gathering astir the Scottish games industry.

GTA 6 remains a spectre present lurking connected November 19th, 2026, pursuing its astir caller hold astir the clip quality of the firings broke.