Rockstar North and Take-Two Interactive are defending their October 30, 2025 dismissal of 34 workers—31 of them IWGB union members—at an employment tribunal in Glasgow that opened this week and is slated to run through mid-October. The studio's filings insist the mass firings stemmed from gross misconduct after employees discussed an "online 32 player format" and other unannounced GTA VI features in a union Discord server that included former staff, competitors, and at least one journalist. Claimants counter that Rockstar planted a mole, covertly monitored the server for 21 months, waited until the union hit the UK's 10% statutory recognition threshold, then executed a targeted decimation without warning, evidence, or appeal.