{"id":766384,"date":"2026-09-10T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766384\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:50:10","slug":"grand-theft-auto-workers-join-protest-as-unfair-dismissal-tribunal-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766384\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Theft Auto workers join protest as unfair dismissal tribunal begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former staff at the video games firm behind Grand Theft Auto have joined a protest rally before the opening of an employment tribunal claiming they were sacked because they tried to unionise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23 claimants who were dismissed last year for what Rockstar Games called &#8220;gross misconduct&#8221; have taken the gaming giant to court for unlawful dismissal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Independent Workers&#8217; Union of Great Britain (IWGB) claims the former staff were penalised for discussing working conditions in a private online forum while working on the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rockstar Games, one of the UK&#8217;s largest game developers, said it took action after staff discussed confidential information, including specific game features, on a Discord channel that was not private.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it was incorrect to link union activities to the dismissal of 31 UK workers, most based at the gaming giant&#8217;s Edinburgh headquarters, and three in Canada in October 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The claimants joined supporters in a rally outside Glasgow Tribunals Centre ahead of the first day of the hearing, which is expected to run until 16 October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former staff at the video games firm behind Grand Theft Auto have joined a protest rally before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766384","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=766384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}