Our understanding of what was happening in Marikana was forged through statements from Lonmin management, union officials and the police.
The company said it had held "constructive meetings" in recent weeks with Volvo management, union leaders and government officials in Sweden and Belgium.
While Canadian National has a long history of poor relations between management and unions, union leaders argue that it deteriorated during Mr. Harrison's tenure.
If you are being bullied at work, tell your manager, management, your union rep, and sympathetic work colleagues.
The violence at the Air France management-union talks this week is a warning to the country, not just the airline.
A joint management-union team has drawn up proposals to give the plant one last chance to improve quality and efficiency.
It means phasing out the harmful pre-eminence of the City and making management-union partnerships the driving force in remedying the deep long-term weaknesses in Britain's economic performance.
This measure was possible only where decent wages and management-union trust existed, what Germans call a "social partnership".
