Rockstar vs. Union: What Really Happened at Court? (Patreon)

Last week PMG traveled up to Edinburgh once again to be there in-person as Rockstar and its fired union members appeared in court for the very first time.As you'll hear in the video, this was a preliminary hearing rather than the full thing and was largely about deciding whether or not these fired workers were eligible for "interim relief", which would have meant that Rockstar needed to continue to pay their salaries as they awaited the final hearing.You may have already seen the news that the judge did not grant this relief, but honestly, there was so much more to the hearing than just the ruling itself.As you'll see, we were able to access a hard copy of the evidence bundles submitted by both sides (nearly 2000 pages in total) and what we found there deserves to be heard.We were able to read through so many of the Discord messages submitted by Rockstar as proof of their former employees' gross misconduct, including one example where a fired union member appears to have been dismissed for a single, fifteen-word post in which he points out that the QA team he's a part of isn't crunching.I say this at the end of the video, but we simply couldn't be reporting this Rockstar case in this way without the support of our patrons. So if this one mattered to you, please know that you're the reason we were able to follow this story in the first place.