Although neither party has divulged what ground is being given up in the dispute – which has centred on an increase in remuneration versus greater flexibility of working conditions – a return to normal operations has been declared as the parties work to finalise terms.<\/p>\n
In a statement to Port Strategy<\/em>, RMTU South Island organiser John Kerr said following the latest talks between the parties, the local membership has \u201cinstructed the RMTU to withdraw strike notices for the period April 20-24 and 26-29 inclusive\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cFurther, they have instructed the RMTU bargaining team to proceed to settlement on the basis of the agreement reached at that meeting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n LPC chief executive Peter Davie said the lifting of those strike notices is \u201can extremely positive step as we move closer to achieving settlement.<\/p>\n \u201cLPC wants to acknowledge customers\u2019 ongoing support and thank them for their patience during the industrial action,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is encouraging that we can again give importers, exporters and our region certainty of uninterrupted service at Lyttelton port.\u201d<\/p>\n The agreement in principle regarding terms of settlement will require formal ratification by RMTU members at Lyttelton port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAgreement in principle\u201d has been reached in the industrial dispute between Lyttelton Port Company (LPC) and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU).<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}