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Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games have been busy. GTA 6 was delayed yesterday, news that broke alongside Take-Two’s quarterly earnings call. And just last week, Rockstar fired between 30 and 40 employees, claiming later that they were “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum” against company policy. The fired employees, however, say they were participating in a union-related Discord chat, and that their firing was “blatant” and “ruthless” union busting.
Amid all this, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is defending the company’s culture and labor record, saying Take-Two is “incredibly proud” of its labor relations.
Speaking to IGN yesterday ahead of the earnings announcement, Zelnick pointed me to Take-Two and Rockstar’s existing public statements when I asked if he had any response to the allegations of union busting, and reiterating that “we fully support Rockstar.”
So then I asked Zelnick, what is Take-Two’s stance on unions, generally? Zelnick did not reply to that specific question. But here’s what he did say:
“Here’s what we have a stance on. We value every one of our colleagues greatly. We have 13,500 colleagues worldwide. We’re so proud of our culture. In the last few years we’ve been recognized over 15 times as
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