<
AI
Automation
Science
Innovation
Open Source
Blockchain
Social Media
Startups
Culture
Cloud
>

Destination
Rockstar Games accused of union busting in the UK

Rockstar Games, developer of Grand Theft Auto VI, has been accused of deliberately laying off employees who were trying to unionize, Bloomberg reports. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) claims over 30 employees who were eliminated at the developer's offices in the UK and Canada were either already part of a union or attempting to organize."Rockstar has just carried out the most blatant and ruthless act of union busting in the history of the games industry," IWGB President Alex Marshall said in a blog post about the layoffs. "This flagrant contempt for the law and for the lives of the workers who bring in their billions is an insult to their fans and the global industry." Besides the disruption of having to find a new job, the union notes that s [...]

Discover Copy
Rating

Innovation

Pricing

Technology

Usability

We have discovered similar tools to what you are looking for. Check out our suggestions for similar AI tools.

Destination
Union files legal claims against Rockstar Games following alleged union busting

The Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) has issued formal legal claims against Rockstar Games, which it has accused of union busting. The Grand Theft Auto VI developer last month fired dozens [...]

Match Score: 267.70

Destination
The UK government will 'look into' Rockstar's firing of union-organizing workers

Rockstar Games may have to answer for what appears to be union-busting behavior. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under pressure from parliament, said the government will "look into" the firi [...]

Match Score: 230.83

Destination
Rockstar Games has confirmed it was hit by third-party data breach

An experienced hacking group has claimed to have infiltrated Rockstar Games' cloud servers, while the game publisher has confirmed that there was a "third-party data breach." ShinyHunte [...]

Match Score: 117.04

Destination
TikTok sued by former workers over alleged union-busting

You know things are messed up when a Big Tech company fights accusations of union-busting by insisting it was only AI layoffs. That's where things stand after a group of fired TikTok moderators i [...]

Match Score: 116.46

Destination
ZeniMax QA workers win tentative union contract with Microsoft

After two years of negotiating, ZeniMax Workers United-CWA, the union representing quality assurance workers at ZeniMax Media, has reached a tentative union contract with Microsoft, according to the C [...]

Match Score: 82.80

Destination
Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union

There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA teste [...]

Match Score: 67.30

Destination
Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule, announcements, new games and everything else to expect

As if early June wasn't already going to be a wild enough time in the gaming world with the arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2, that's also when a whole host of showcases takes place as part o [...]

Match Score: 62.24

Destination
Hyper Light Drifter studio workers form union after rounds of layoffs

Workers at Heart Machine, the independent studio behind Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, have formed a union with Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 9003. The wall-to-wall unit covers all [...]

Match Score: 61.91

Destination
Video Games Weekly: Grand Theft Auto is no friend to the queer community

Welcome to the initial installment of Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday (yes, we realize today is Tuesday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays, [...]

Match Score: 57.37