{"id":264555,"date":"2025-11-01T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264555\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:23:11","slug":"grand-theft-auto-studio-accused-of-union-busting-after-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264555\/","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":264556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8450,10100,103,1076,71014,7264,9746,142261,74,1049,16154],"class_list":{"0":"post-264555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-automotive","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-infrastructure","14":"tag-law","15":"tag-take-two-interactive-softwre","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-video-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}