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IWGB Union Says Rockstar's Statement Is Filled With "Disinformation" Over Fired Developers

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The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain said that Rockstar Games is "attempting to reverse engineer a rationale" for terminating over 30 UK and internally employees in October 2025.

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The British union Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has reacted again to the ongoing word war with the developer of GTA 6, Rockstar, and has described the recent statement by the studio on the controversial dismissal of 34 employees as an attempt to construct a justification for the dismissals afterwards.

Rockstar Games is once again at the heart of a labor-law conflict that has now reached political dimensions. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) makes serious accusations against the developer studio and accuses Rockstar of spreading false information in connection with the dismissal of several employees. The trigger was a statement from Rockstars last Thursday. It said that former employees had been dismissed because they had …

News from HD Tecnología. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Rockstar Games came out to publicly clarify the dismissal of 31 employees, a decision that generated strong repercussions in the industry over the last few days. The developer stated that the decouplings were not related to the union membership of the workers, but to the leaking of confidential information about unannounced games. The layoffs involved employees working on …

The case of layoffs at Rockstar Games, a studio behind GTA 6, reaches the highest spheres of power. Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the situation as "profoundly worrying" and promised a review of the file, following accusations of obstacles to unionization disguised as layoffs for serious misconduct. A political pressure that is added to the growing social mobilization.

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pcgamer broke the news in on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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