Building and maintaining sound relationships with our employees and trade unions is fostered through: • a culture of engagement and a concern for the well-being of our employees, partners and communities • ongoing, open and meaningful dialogue, ensuring that relevant changes to the organisation or its practices are tabled with trade unions for discussion prior to their implementation, and that, in turn, any employee concerns are brought up for discussion within the organisation before they become the subject of disputes • our appreciation that many of the issues of concern to our employees also affect the mining sector generally and sometimes society as a whole.