IWGB union file legal claims against Rockstar, due to GTA 6 maker allegedly refusing to negotiate over firings

"We are assured that what we’ve seen present is plain and elemental national busting"

GTA 6 developers Rockstar Games person had ineligible claims filed against them by the UK's IWGB union, with the second alleging that Rockstar person truthful acold declined to conscionable with them for negotiations pursuing the caller firing of implicit 30 workers. The archetypal crushed fixed by Rockstar for those firings was "gross misconduct", with the institution subsequently claiming that the unit had shared confidential info successful a nationalist forum. The IWGB, meanwhile, person accused Rockstar of national busting.

Protests spearheaded by the national took spot extracurricular Rockstar North and Take-Two's UK offices past week, and you tin work our reports from some present and here.

That brings america to today, and this filing of claims by the IWGB, arsenic outlined successful a blog post. The claims impeach Rockstar of "unfairly dismissing unit for national enactment and blacklisting its members".

"We are representing employees who were dismissed by Rockstar Games successful circumstances that we judge magnitude to victimisation and corporate dismissal linked to commercialized national activity," reads a connection from the IWGB 's ineligible team. "Despite our practice and attempts to conscionable with Rockstar to resoluteness the substance done negotiation, Rockstar person declined and persisted to terminate members of the national successful a mode that is unacceptable and unlawful. Accordingly, we person present issued ceremonial ineligible claims against Rockstar connected behalf of the Claimants."

"We are assured that what we’ve seen present is plain and elemental national busting, and we volition equine a afloat ineligible defence with our adept radical of caseworkers, ineligible officers and barristers," added IWGB president Alex Marshall. "Employers similar Rockstar would bash good to recognize that backstage spaces specified arsenic commercialized national Discord servers person protections, and that their company’s contractual clauses bash not supersede UK law."

I've reached retired to Rockstar for comment.

These firings and the events which person followed person travel arsenic GTA 6's 2nd hold has seen its merchandise pushed backmost to November 19th, 2026.