Rockstar claims the GTA developers fired last week had been leaking information, thus rejecting the IGWEB’s accusations of union-busting.
Rockstar fired between thirty and forty GTA developers across its offices in Canada and the United Kingdom, triggering accusations by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) that the game studio sought to prevent their attempt to unionize. The IWGB claimed that all those developers were working to that end, and vowed to defend their rights through ‘every legal claim possible’.
Initially, Rockstar Games only stated that they had been fired due to a rather generic ‘gross misconduct’. Now, though, Bloomberg has received a more detailed statement from a company spokesperson. The GTA and Red Dead Redemption developer claims these employees were ‘found to be distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum’, in violation of Rockstar’s policies.
