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Rockstar Hit by Legal Claim Issued by IWGB After Refusing to Meet about Reinstating the Fired Workers

A group of six people standing with raised fists in front of the Rockstar North building, holding banners with the text 'IWGB Game Workers' and 'Game Workers Beat Bosses'.

The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has filed a legal claim against Rockstar Games, following the game developer’s decision to suddenly fire 31 workers from the Edinburgh office (and three more in Canada). As we previously covered, Rockstar claimed the terminations were due to ‘gross misconduct’, which was later clarified as ‘leaking information on a public forum’; however, the workers maintain that they had been on the verge of unionization after reaching the 10% threshold required by law. Thus, the IWGB considers this a brazen act of union busting. After a series of protests held in front of […]

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