{"id":92134,"date":"2026-10-27T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92134"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:40:42","slug":"gta-6-developers-are-about-to-do-something-historic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92134","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Developers Are About To Do Something Historic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\">GTA 6<\/a> developer Rockstar will soon get to vote on recognizing a union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The union, IWGB Union at Rockstar, is for Rockstar&#8217;s UK-based developers. Rockstar North, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is one of Rockstar&#8217;s biggest outfits in the UK, and the lead developer on GTA 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The negotiating process between the union and Rockstar management took months, and the union, if recognized, would give workers a stronger seat at the table for key issues like pay and bonuses, overtime, generative AI policies, work-from-home setups, and situations involving layoffs. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=klc0fQmAL6k  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IWGB Rockstar Game Workers Union would become the largest in the UK video game sector, if it&#8217;s voted in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The voting period&#8211;November 12-26&#8211;overlaps with the release of GTA 6 on November 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, an employment tribunal over claims that Rockstar fired developers for trying to form a union is coming to a close, with final arguments set for November 17 and November 18. More than 30 IWGB members were let go from Rockstar in the UK in October 2025, with the union saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/rockstar-accused-of-firing-grand-theft-auto-devs-over-union-organization\/1100-6535862\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/rockstar-accused-of-firing-grand-theft-auto-devs-over-union-organization\/1100-6535862\/\">Rockstar fired them for trying to form a union<\/a>. Rockstar, for its part, said the staffers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/rockstar-insists-gta-6-devs-were-fired-for-leaks-not-unionizing\/1100-6536894\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/rockstar-insists-gta-6-devs-were-fired-for-leaks-not-unionizing\/1100-6536894\/\">dismissed<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at GTA 6 developer Rockstar will soon get to vote on recognizing a union. The union, IWGB Union at Rockstar, is for Rockstar&#8217;s UK-based developers. Rockstar North, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is one of Rockstar&#8217;s biggest outfits in the UK, and the lead developer on GTA 6. The negotiating process between the union and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92137,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92134\/revisions\/92137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}