Tribunal Lets Fired Rockstar Staff Take Blacklisting Claims to Trial — September 10 to Mid-October
A preliminary decision has gone against Rockstar: the dismissed IWGB members keep the right to argue blacklisting at the full hearing, which now has dates — September 10 to mid-October 2026, before GTA 6 ships.
The dispute goes back to October 2025, when Rockstar dismissed 31 staff. The IWGB says they were members of a private union Discord discussing working conditions, and were fired once management learned of it. Rockstar maintains the firings were a response to employees leaking confidential information in a Discord channel.
The June ruling is procedural but it matters: the tribunal upheld the workers' right to bring blacklisting claims at the final hearing rather than striking them out. That hearing runs September 10 to mid-October 2026 — it will be over before the game launches on November 19.
The workers' own position on the game is unchanged and worth repeating: they have asked fans not to boycott GTA 6. As they put it, they spent years pouring their work into it. Support, they say, should go to the legal fund instead.
Updated September 10, 2026: this story first gave the end date as October 15. The IWGB’s own hearing notice gives both — “until 16 October” and sittings “until at least Thursday 15 October” — and IGN reports October 16, so we now say mid-October.
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