GTA 6 developer Rockstar claims the over 30 staff who had been fired final Thursday, Oct. 30, had been leaking confidential info to events outdoors the corporate. The corporate denied all claims that it was a union-busting transfer.
“Final week, we took motion towards a small variety of people who had been discovered to be distributing and discussing confidential info in a public discussion board, a violation of our firm insurance policies,” a Rockstar spokesperson informed Bloomberg, including how this motion was “under no circumstances associated to individuals’s proper to hitch a union.”
This assertion led to union protests on the morning of Nov. 6 in entrance of the Rockstar North headquarters within the U.Ok. Employees are demanding the workers beforehand fired are reinstated as asking for help from bystanders, calling Rockstar’s actions “probably the most ruthless and blatant instance of unlawful union busting within the historical past of the video games trade.”
The union mentioned the workers who had been fired had been a part of a personal commerce union chat group on Discord, and the president of the union mentioned Rockstar is “afraid of hard-working workers privately discussing exercising their rights for a fairer office and a collective voice.”
Rockstar saying “confidential info” was leaked “in a public discussion board” probably implies that these employees had been sharing particulars about their office at Rockstar on the union’s Discord channel, not that they had been leaking sport info on on-line boards like Reddit or 4chan. Up till the time of writing, no new GTA 6 leaks got here out wherever not less than since Oct. 30, when the workers had been let go.
The GTA 6 gamers on Reddit are principally supporting the affected builders.
“Right here’s the PR harm management for union busting,” a Redditor wrote. “Was this ‘firm secret’ 100 hour work weeks?,” one other participant added, paradoxically. “Doing this s*** to individuals who create the video games is rarely good!,” a 3rd one commented.
GTA Base interviewed a spokesperson for the IWGB union, who’s supporting Rockstar’s employees. “The IWGB is at the moment pursuing all authorized avenues to demand employees are reinstated and grant them interim reduction, and can proceed protest at Rockstar and Take Two till employees are again of their jobs,” the spokesperson mentioned. “Employees solely communicated in non-public and legally protected commerce union channels and didn’t leak any info publicly. The place are the leaks?”
