{"id":4050,"date":"2014-10-22T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2014\/10\/22\/tensions-exposed-at-lyttelton\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T10:05:00","slug":"tensions-exposed-at-lyttelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2014\/10\/22\/tensions-exposed-at-lyttelton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions exposed at Lyttelton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LPC chief executive Peter Davie recently said a new and improved policy &#8211; which addressed \u201choles\u201d with the existing process &#8211; was ready to be introduced about six months ago, but claimed the union had been blocking the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a cause of concern as we are focused on introducing the new random drug testing quickly as we believe it supports an enhanced safety operating environment for all port users,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>RMTU South Island Organiser John Kerr scoffed the claim and said \u201cno responsible union would oppose such an initiative in such a safety-critical industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kerr said his organisation had much experience on the issue and suggested in fact it had been awaiting LPC\u2019s response to the communications last made in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underlying tensions between management of Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) have come to the fore over a mandatory drug testing initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}