Staff at Rockstar Games

That this House is concerned by media reports that 31 staff at Rockstar Games have been dismissed without warning, allegedly for their involvement with the Game Workers Branch of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB); understands that staff have been dismissed from studios in Dundee, Edinburgh and Lincoln; notes that the firings have led to protests outside the company’s offices in both Edinburgh and London; further understands that staff dismissed had been in talks with IWGB about unionising within Rockstar Games; shares concerns for the staff affected, who have lost their livelihoods, incomes and, in some cases, their visa-sponsors at a volatile time for those working in the wider gaming industry; and calls on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport to investigate these dismissals as a potential case of anti-union discrimination.