{"id":236559,"date":"2025-10-31T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236559\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:32:09","slug":"grand-theft-auto-studio-accused-of-union-busting-after-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236559\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grand Theft Auto\u2019 Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.\u2019s Rockstar Games fired dozens of employees in a move that a British trade union said was designed to prevent the workers from unionizing. The company said they were fired for misconduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Grand Theft Auto maker terminated between 30 and 40 staffers across multiple offices in the UK and Canada on Thursday, according to a spokesperson for the Independent Workers\u2019 Union of Great Britain (IWGB). All of the employees were part of a private trade union chat group on Discord and were either members of the union or attempting to organize at the company, the union spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.\u2019s Rockstar Games fired dozens of employees in a move that a British trade union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,6299,84,626,591,59,57,464,1215,100068,86,56,54,55,3178],"class_list":["post-236559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-americas","tag-automotive","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-europe","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-infrastructure","tag-law","tag-take-two-interactive-softwre","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}