Rockstar’s UK employees will vote next month on whether the company should formally recognize the IWGB Rockstar Game Workers Union. The anonymous online ballot runs from November 12 to 26, placing GTA 6's November 19 launch right in the middle of voting.
The vote follows months of talks between Rockstar management and union representatives. The Rockstar Game Workers Union (RGWU) says employees will decide whether to approve a recognition agreement that would give them a formal say in workplace decisions. If they vote in favor, the IWGB says Rockstar would have the UK games industry’s largest formally recognized union.
Rockstar Workers Want a Say on Pay, Overtime and AI Policies
If approved, the agreement would give Rockstar employees a say in matters including pay and bonuses, overtime, layoffs, flexible working arrangements, and the company’s policies concerning generative AI. The union has also raised pensions and parental leave as issues it wants workers to have more influence over.
Union organizing at Rockstar did not begin with this ballot. Workers have been organizing since 2019, and employees requested formal recognition in June at the company’s offices in Edinburgh, Dundee, Lincoln, Leeds, and London. The union and Rockstar began discussing a recognition...
