Union Files Legal Claims Against Rockstar Games Following Alleged Union Busting

The Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) has issued general ineligible claims against Rockstar Games, which it has accused of national busting. The Grand Theft Auto VI developer past period fired dozens of labor who were organizing.

The IWGB said successful a statement it made respective attempts to meet pinch Rockstar pinch nan purpose of resolving nan business done negotiations, but claimed nan workplace rebuffed nan union. It’s now looking to return nan matter earlier a court. “We person now issued general ineligible claims against Rockstar connected behalf of nan claimants,” nan IWGB said. It added that it believed nan firings “amount to victimization and corporate dismissal linked to waste and acquisition national activity.” The national antecedently said that each of those who Rockstar fired were members of nan members of an IWGB Game Workers Union Discord server.

Alex Marshall, nan president of IWGB pledged that nan national will “mount a afloat ineligible defense pinch our master group of caseworkers, ineligible officers and barristers. Employers for illustration Rockstar would do good to understand that backstage spaces specified arsenic waste and acquisition national Discord servers person protections, and that their company’s contractual clauses do not supersede UK law.” Marshall added that nan national will “not beryllium intimidated.”

Rockstar claimed that it fired nan much than 30 workers successful mobility for “gross misconduct, and for nary different reason” and it accused them of “distributing and discussing confidential accusation successful a nationalist forum.” Engadget has asked nan company, which past week delayed GTA VI by a further six months, to remark connected IWGB issuing ineligible claims against it.

People Make Games reported this week that a corporate of workers called nan Rockstar Games Workers' Union had recruited conscionable complete 10 percent of nan company’s UK workforce to join. That’s 1 of nan benchmarks needed to use for statutory nickname successful nan country. If that were granted, nan authorities would beryllium capable to unit Rockstar to admit nan union. The Rockstar Games Workers' Union was said to beryllium conscionable weeks distant from formally announcing its beingness earlier Rockstar allegedly fired a mostly of nan organizing committee.