Media Advisory - Coast Guard union joins with Wilderness Committee, Vancouver City councilor Kerry Jang, BC Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair to warn that closing Vancouver Marine Communications & Traffic Service centre will endanger Port of Vancouver - environment and lives at risk

News conference Wednesday October 3 at 1:30 p.m. - Vancouver Lookout - at top of Harbour Centre building

VANCOUVER, Oct. 2, 2012 /CNW/ - Closing Vancouver's Marine Communications & Traffic Service centre will endanger both the environment and lives in Canada's busiest port, says the union representing the Canadian Coast Guard's Marine Communications Officers.

And the Wilderness Committee, the City of Vancouver and the BC Federation of Labour all agree.

The news conference will take place in the Vancouver Lookout in the Harbour Centre building, just a few floors above the Marine Communications & Traffic Service centre that directs and monitors tanker, freighter, cruise ship, tugboat, pleasure craft and all other vessel traffic in the Port.

The federal government is also closing Canadian Coast Guard Marine Communications & Traffic Service centres in Comox and Tofino, further jeopardizing safety at sea.

The Canadian Auto Workers Local 2182 - representing Canadian Coast Guard Marine Communications Officers - will hold the news conference at:

1:30 p.m. on Wednesday October 3 at the Vancouver Lookout - top of Harbour Centre building - 555 West Hastings Street

Attending will be CAW Local 2182 Regional Director Allan Hughes, Wilderness Committee Communications Coordinator Ben West, Vancouver City Councilor Kerry Jang and BC Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair.

SOURCE: CAW Local 2182

Allan Hughes at cell 250-703-6401 or Bill Tieleman, West Star Communications, cell 778-896-0964 or 604-844-7827.
Website: http://www.2182.ca/en/index.html