TY - JOUR AB - Labatt Breweries of Canada and Local #1 London and Local #304 Toronto of the Brewery, General & Professional Workers Union recognized that building trust in a historically damaged labour management relationship required four large sequential steps. Step one was understanding the conditions required to create trust. Step two built on the conditions by revisiting past and current wounds to mutually understand and learn. Step three involved mutually defining their desired future. The fourth step, where they are now, involves ongoing open discussion and problem solving as true partners in the business while respecting each other’s role. VL - 6 IS - 5 SN - 0968-4891 DO - 10.1108/14634449810233819 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/14634449810233819 AU - Rankin Jim PY - 1998 Y1 - 1998/01/01 TI - Building trust ‐ the essential ingredient in partnering to improve business results T2 - Empowerment in Organizations PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 135 EP - 145 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -