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Facebook X Reddit Flipboard Email 0 us Rockstar employees hold a vote union recognition over a span in November perfectly bracket the launch of the console of Grand Theft Auto If the vote carries in favor of the the IWGB Rockstar Game Workers Union the biggest game industry union in the UK, employees a voice matters including and bonuses, overtime, flexible working arrangements, and AI policies. The terms of the recognition have been under between the union and Rockstar management since but unionization efforts have been for much longer. The came under intense scrutiny in 2025 when the studio 31 employees in what the IWGB claimed "the most brazen of union busting the games industry has seen." Rockstar alleged the employees were GTA 6 information in a Discord; the matter is before an employment in Scotland. "This November, have the chance to make history not once but As all our work, skill and creativity experienced by GTA VI for the first time, our voices heard for the first time too," Rockstar Game Workers Union member Shanti Easton-Steel Latest Videos FromPC Watch full video "For me, this vote down to ensuring employees at Rockstar honesty and openness surrounding the affect them. When management choices hidden, can't properly issues like the gender the uneven and ever-changing policies pay, or the concerns co-workers hold around job post-release. This is our moment to secure a onto the shape our lives, and a at the table to improve them. I'm proud of the games Rockstar gives its want to equally proud of the voice Rockstar gives its staff." proud to share in a few weeks' time, Rockstar to have their own say over union From and pensions to parental and overtime, this recognition agreement is a chance for workers to involved in the shape their lives.— (@rsgworkersunion.bsky.social.bsky.social) 2026-10-27T22:22:57.195Z "For anyone cares about the games industry or the people it running, this vote is just as as the game release. But for workers at Rockstar, it is so much personal: it is fundamentally a choice about you to have a say in how your life is organised," IWGB Union president Marshall added. The vote to recognize the union November 12-26, the week leading and then the week after, GTA 6's November launch consoles. Rockstar hasn't commented the vote, but Rockstar head of publishing Kolbe indicated in Bloomberg's look at the making of GTA the studio won't it: "We go the team goes. So if they want a they have a Grand Theft Auto 6 GTA 6 guide: Everything knowGTA 6 The garage lineupGTA 6 characters: Your castGTA 6 map: Confirmed City localesGTA 6 PC When's it going to happen? The biggest reviews and hardware deals to date with the most important and the best deals, as picked by the PC TOPICS Andy Chalk US Lead Andy has been PCs from the very starting as a youngster with text and primitive action games a cassette-based From there he graduated to the days of Sierra Online and sims, ran a local learned how to build PCs, and a longstanding love of RPGs, sims, and shooters. He began writing in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow to avoid getting until when he joined the storied ranks of PC He covers all aspects of the industry, from game announcements and patch notes to disputes, Twitch beefs, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.
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