Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch
Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch
Rockstar 员工在《GTA VI》发布前推动工会化
Workers at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar Games have submitted a request for their union, the IWGB Game Workers Union, to be voluntarily recognized, according to a press release. The request follows Rockstar firing more than 30 staffers last year in a move accused of being “union busting.”
据一份新闻稿显示，《侠盗猎车手 VI》（Grand Theft Auto VI）开发商 Rockstar Games 的员工已提交申请，要求公司自愿承认其工会——IWGB 游戏工会（IWGB Game Workers Union）。在此之前，Rockstar 去年解雇了 30 多名员工，此举被指控为“破坏工会”。
According to the release, IWGB members have been “actively” organizing since 2019 and “claim they now represent a significant proportion of the workforce across each of the studio’s sites in Edinburgh, Dundee, Lincoln, Leeds and London.” As the union has grown, “Rockstar has already made improvements to workers’ conditions including unprecedented average pay rises and financial incentives for crunch for the first time ever.” The union wants to improve pay transparency, strengthen “flexible working arrangements,” and address crunch, which is something Rockstar has come under scrutiny for in the past.
根据新闻稿，IWGB 成员自 2019 年以来一直在“积极”组织活动，并“声称他们目前代表了该工作室在爱丁堡、邓迪、林肯、利兹和伦敦各站点中相当大比例的员工”。随着工会的发展，“Rockstar 已经改善了员工的工作条件，包括史无前例的平均加薪，以及首次为加班（crunch）提供经济激励。”工会希望提高薪酬透明度，加强“灵活工作安排”，并解决加班问题——这正是 Rockstar 过去备受诟病的问题。
“We have received a request from a union seeking to discuss voluntary recognition,” Alan Lewis, Take-Two’s head of communications, says in a statement to The Verge. “We value an open and constructive dialogue with all stakeholders and will arrange to meet.”
Take-Two 通讯主管 Alan Lewis 在给《The Verge》的一份声明中表示：“我们已收到工会要求讨论自愿承认的请求。我们重视与所有利益相关者进行开放和建设性的对话，并将安排会面。”
A final hearing in an employment tribunal over last year’s firings is scheduled to start in September — shortly before the planned launch of Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19th. Rockstar announced a $79.99 starting price for the game and opened preorders last week.
针对去年裁员事件的就业法庭最终听证会定于 9 月开始，这距离《侠盗猎车手 VI》计划于 11 月 19 日的发布日期已非常接近。Rockstar 上周宣布该游戏的起售价为 79.99 美元，并已开启预购。
The push from Rockstar workers is part of a bigger movement by game developers to unionize. Double Fine staffers filed a petition to unionize in May, and workers at the Activision studio Raven Software secured their first union contract last year.
Rockstar 员工的这一举动是游戏开发者工会化大趋势的一部分。Double Fine 的员工在 5 月提交了工会化请愿书，而动视旗下 Raven Software 的员工去年也签署了他们的第一份工会合同。