Rockstar Games employees have locked in a union vote next month, and it'll take place over Grand Theft Auto 6's release window

A date has been locked in for Rockstar Games employees to vote on whether to recognise their developer union.

The short version

• If successful, it will become the largest recognised union across the entirety of the UK video games industry.
• The vote, which runs from the 12th to the 26th November, will give workers at Rockstar Games a chance to decide whether Rockstar will formally acknowledge and negotiate with the Rockstar Game Workers Union on matters involving its employees.
• These dates notably fall on either side of Grand Theft Auto 6 's release date, and shortly after Rockstar's head of publishing Jennifer Kolbe told Bloomberg: "we go where the team goes.

What happened

So if they want a union, they will have a union." This announcement also comes as the legal battle between Rockstar and the Independent Workers of Great Britain union over the alleged unfair firing of over 30 employees . The union argues this was an attempt at union busting , whereas Rockstar stands by its decision to fire them for gross misconduct, pointing to the sharing of confidential information in a union Discord as the reason for the intervention.

Why it matters

This case was meant to have finished already.

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