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Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years," GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle
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- Sep 11 2026
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Which side are you on?
Witty comebacks aside. That's pretty sad. Makes you wonder the motivation (or compensation) for said mole.
This is a good reminder for anyone wishing to unionize their workplace: Practice good operational security. Use distributed means of communication, try to avoid using something like Discord. Practice zero trust and be constantly authenticating and validating participant. Try and have effective means of data loss prevention if you can. I'd even try labeling all content of discussion as "sensitivite" to help discourage or even track where it is being shared from.
Not sure what labor laws are like in the UK but if this was in the US this would seem like a pretty clear case of violating the NLRA.
Fuck these companies for preventing their employees for collaborating to ask for better treatment.
I'm on the side of the workers. Given how incredibly greedy and litigious Rockstar and Take Two Interactive have been, and how they stabbed Leslie Benzies in the back a decade ago, I can definitely see them trumping up allegations to bust a workers' union.
But it is going to hinge on what was actually discussed in the Discord server, if there were server rules preventing confidential information from being discussed, how they were enforced by server moderators, how they controlled server access, etc.
I agree that yes, their opsec was flawed, but it's not like they could have used the company's internal Slack channels for this purpose; that's just asking for senior management to use PIPs to try and weed any pro-union staff out early.
Our labour laws are generally stronger than those in the US.
Isn’t that true of almost any developed and democratic country?
Union busting is so despicable. That activity alone and the amounts of money companies pay to make it happen should tell workers everything they need to know about whether a union would be good or bad for them.
Not to mention miles like that unknown junior employee leaking info back to rockstar. I’d like to think they didn’t know any better to act this way (junior), but I don’t believe it.
I’ll make sure to download every rockstar game I’ll play illegally and not give them a dime.
I find that one of their main points of argument for the potential for leaked information is because they themselves were asking someone to leak information to be petty. It does feel like they are trying to break up the union discord with the potential for there to be leaked information. If Rockstar could actually point to leaked information besides their rat, then I think the firing of employees would be more valid. But since they have not claimed that yet, Rockstar should have done some non-firing disciplinary action
Why should anyone be sacked (edit: or face disciplinary action of any kind) for attempting to form a Labour union? It’s the main way we can avoid being trampled by unscrupulous employers, whose term for us is often Human Cattle. Sorry, capital.
The fired employees are arguing that Rockstar fired them in an attempt at union busting. Rockstar's argument is that it wasn't union busting, but instead over a concern of sensitive info being leaked. Rockstar's argument for the possibility that info being leaked is that their own mole leaked info back to management. My opinion is that since Rockstar went the nuclear option right away on the possibility that info may be leaked does indicate that it was actually about union busting and not their argument of possibility of leaked info. If Rockstar attempted other disciplinary actions over unsecure confidential info first before firing, or if info was meaningfully leaked, then I think their rationale for the firing would have merit. Since those do not seem to have happened, it does seem like blatant union busting with a flimsy alternative rationale