In October, Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games fired over 30 employees without warning in multiple offices in the UK and Canada, all of whom were members of a private trade union Discord channel. In the months since, despite its parent company Take-Two Interactive's insistence that the studio terminated those employees "for gross misconduct, and for no other reason," Rockstar has offered little justification to indicate the firings were anything other than retaliation for attempted workplace organizing.
According to a statement given by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) in response to the firings, the terminated employees were all either union members or pursuing worker organization at the studio.
