{"id":20775,"date":"2025-11-07T18:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/uk-union-accuses-gta-maker-rockstar-games-of-firing-employees-attempting-to-organise\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:37:43","slug":"uk-union-accuses-gta-maker-rockstar-games-of-firing-employees-attempting-to-organise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/uk-union-accuses-gta-maker-rockstar-games-of-firing-employees-attempting-to-organise\/","title":{"rendered":"UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Independent Workers\u2019 Union of Great Britain, the developer fired more than 30 staff last week for being members of a<em> <\/em>union-affiliated<em> <\/em>Discord channel<\/p>\n<p>Rockstar Games, the video game developer behind Grand Theft Auto, has been accused of carrying out a \u201cblatant and ruthless act of union busting\u201d after allegedly firing more than 30 workers who claim they were attempting to unionise.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Independent Workers\u2019 Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which represents workers in the video games industry, UK-based employees of the developer were fired last week for being members of the IWGB game workers union Discord channel. The workers claim to have been targeted for this reason, in what the union argues constitutes unlawful and retaliatory dismissals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/nov\/07\/uk-union-accuses-gta-maker-rockstar-games-of-firing-employees-attempting-to-organise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a75c07eb19d16befb9a626ad12dec1b130b7286c\/1269_207_6474_5182\/master\/6474.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e1f2ff45538de573bf7dc5c78c8b8b0\" title=\"UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise\" \/>According to The Independent Workers\u2019 Union of Great Britain, the developer fired more than 30 staff last week for being members of a union-affiliated Discord channel<br \/>\nRockstar Games, the video game developer behind Grand Theft Auto, has been accused of carrying out a \u201cblatant and ruthless act of union busting\u201d after allegedly firing more than 30 workers who claim they were attempting to unionise.<br \/>\nAccording to The Independent Workers\u2019 Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which represents workers in the video games industry, UK-based employees of the developer were fired last week for being members of the IWGB game workers union Discord channel. The workers claim to have been targeted for this reason, in what the union argues constitutes unlawful and retaliatory dismissals. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Independent Workers\u2019 Union of Great Britain, the developer fired more than 30 staff last week for being members of a union-affiliated Discord channel Rockstar Games, the video game developer behind Grand Theft Auto, has been accused of carrying out a \u201cblatant and ruthless act of union busting\u201d after allegedly firing more than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/uk-union-accuses-gta-maker-rockstar-games-of-firing-employees-attempting-to-organise\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}