PMG Reports: The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6 (Patreon)

Hey everyone,Less than two weeks ago, Rockstar Games suddenly fired 31 of its UK employees (as well as three over in Toronto, Canada) for what it described as "gross misconduct". If they were in the office at the time, they were escorted out of it by security, with no opportunity to say goodbye to their colleagues or pick up anything from their desks. If they weren't in the office that morning, they received a phone call and had their access immediately revoked.To fire somebody in this way in the UK, let alone 31 somebodies, a company needs to hit a pretty serious threshold for what that misconduct must have entailed. So what happened then? What was the reason given?A few days later we'd hear Rockstar claim that its former employees were guilty of "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum".If you're still left wondering what exactly that means, you're not the only one. So allow me to give you a little more context. Every single one of the employees fired here, all 34 of them, were also trying to unionize. And that public forum they're meant to have posted on? I'm told by the union that this was, in fact, a private Discord server being used to organise their efforts alongside the Independent Workers of Great Britain.And so what Rockstar may call "gross misconduct", these fired workers call something else entirely: union busting.I went to Edinburgh to meet the "Rockstar 31" for myself as they held a demonstration outside their old offices of Rockstar North.