The Independent Workers' union of Great Britain (IWGB) has issued legal claims against GTA 6 developer Rockstar after the recent firing of 31 employees for what parent company Take-Two called "gross misconduct." Rockstar, for its part, said the impacted employees had been "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum." Really, claims the IWGB, Rockstar was trying to crush a fledgling union before one of the biggest video game launches in history.
"What we've seen here is plain and simple union busting," IWGB president Alex Marshall says in a November 12 statement revealing the organization's legal action against Rockstar. "Employers like Rockstar would do well to understand that private spaces such as trade union Discord servers have protections, and that their company's contractual clauses do not supersede UK law."
