THE UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS..A SCOURGE ON ORGANIZED LABOR ..A TITLE EARNED

    

 EVERY OTHER DAY WE HAVE YET ANOHTER REPORT ON THE CORRUPTION THAT INFESTS DIRTY DOUG MCCARRONS CARPENTERS UNION

AS LONG AS CASH MCCARRON SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH CORRUPT TRASH AND MORONS WHO ARE TO STUPID TO BE A THREAT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE UBC BARREL THE HITS WILL KEEP COMING  

    

 

Union leaders have a big problem on their hands – and it is one of their own making.

A series of union scandals, including one involving the Carpenters regional Council,is eroding public confidence in organized labour. That’s because union bosses are serving up a surplus of arrogance and a shortage of accountability.

The real tragedy, of course, is that these ethical failures amount to a dereliction of duty. The affected unions’ dues-paying members deserve reliable representation to safeguard their rights at this critical moment for Canada’s economy.

I offer this opinion as a member of a union (Unifor represents some employees of The Globe and Mail), but also as a business journalist who regularly writes about corruption and governance lapses on Bay Street and beyond. Unions, in my view, ought to be subject to the same scrutiny on matters of misconduct.

Take, for instance, the controversy currently engulfing the Carpenters’ Regional Council, or CRC, one of Canada’s largest construction unions.

Earlier this week, my colleague Jeff Gray reported that three of the union’s senior officials resigned amid an internal probe sparked by a Globe investigation into questionable real estate transactions including one in 2022 that involved a $4-million home used by the union’s top boss and his wife. More on that in a minute.

The resignations included executive secretary-treasurer Jason Rowe, his spouse, Stacey Rowe, who was also a senior union official, and Tom Cardinal, the union’s president and chief of staff, according to staff e-mails reviewed by The Globe.

Neither the former executives nor a CRC spokesman provided comment before the story’s publication on Sunday. Nor did the union announce the resignations on its website, leaving the bulk of its 60,000 members in the dark.

That’s shocking because earlier this month,the CRC was placed under the supervision of its US based parent union the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

The U.S. parent launched an internal probe of CRC after The Globe published a story in April that revealed both the purchase of the luxury home in Nobleton, Ont., and that it was occupied by Mr. Rowe and his wife from 2022 to 2024.

After that probe began, The Globe published  a subsequent story that revealed the purchase of a second home for $2.5-million in 2024.

Both homes were bought by a numbered company (Mr. Rowe and his wife both served as directors at the time), and the homes were later transferred to the Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp. for free.

In other words, the resignations and the questionable real-estate transactions both came to light thanks to Mr. Gray’s dogged reporting – and not because of transparency from the union.

These are matters of public interest because the CRC has previously received millions of dollars from the federal and provincial governments for its worker-training centres.

Other unions have also become embroiled in controversies.

In 2023, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, or OPSEU, accused three of its former executives, including its former long-time president, Warren (Smokey) Thomas, of improperly taking $5.75-million of union funds.

The allegations, which were contained in a lawsuit have not been proven in court. Not only are the allegations contested,Mr Thomas later launched a countersuit and denied any wrong doing

Mr. Thomas has also previously said that OPSEU’s current leadership, headed by JP Hornick, is waging a “nasty, political campaign” against him and that he will be vindicated in court.

His comments about infighting are reminiscent of those made by Unifor’s former leader, Jerry Dias, who previously faced allegations of bribery from his union back in 2022.

Toronto Police decided not to charge Mr. Dias for allegedly accepting $50,000 in cash from an unnamed company and he later reached an undisclosed settlement with Unifor.

“I am a lot of things but crooked is not one of them,” he told  the Globe in 2023later adding: “I never took a dime.”

Mr. Dias also blamed internal politics at Unifor for the fiasco.

So, what the heck is happening inside Canada’s biggest unions?

At a time when Canadians are facing an affordability crisis, artificial intelligence is threatening to destroy jobs and the U.S. trade war is taking an economic toll, workers deserve better.

It’s time to subject unions to rigorous public disclosures regarding their finances, executive salaries and perks.

Some 30.6 per cent of Canadian workers were covered by a collective bargaining agreement in 2025, but union membership has been declining since the 1980s.

New members have long complained that union leadership is comprised of an old guard that is out of touch with young people, women and visible minorities.

Financial controversies will only fuel the discontent.

Canadians are losing trust in the labour movement. Union leaders only have themselves to blame.

 

IT IS LONG PAST TIME FOR EITHER MEMBERS OR THE FEDERAL AGENCIES TO PUT THIS CROOK OUT TO THE TRASH 

 

 

AND FOR GODS SAKE SOMEBODY DO IT BEFORE ET EYES MCCARRON HAS MORE PLASTIC SURGERY.WHATS NEXT AFTER ET EYES ??THE CASH MCCARRON FREDDY KRUGER COSTUME

 

 

HEY TERRENCE MOONEY. SINCE YOU ARE COOKING THE BOOKS FOR SO MANY UBC CROOKS...YOU PAYING ATTENTION

 WHEN THE FEDS GET DONE LOOKING AT THE LIES AND BS YOU HAVE SUBMITTED SO FAR LET'S MAKE SURE THEY REVIEW ANY FUTURE LIES AND BS YOU FILE ON BEHALF OF YOUR CROOKED UBC  HANDLERS

 

News Release

US Department of Labor finalizes rule protecting union workers

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a final rule that increases financial transparency for unions regulated by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 and enhances union worker protections.  

Issued by the department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards, the final rule modernizes the reporting requirements of the Form LM-2, an annual financial disclosure form which larger labor organizations use to report their financial conditions and operations under the act. The final rule also creates an enhanced Form LM-2 Long Form for the nation’s largest labor organizations and increases filing thresholds for Forms LM-2, LM-3, and LM-4 to alleviate burden on smaller labor organizations.

The final rule increases transparency for America’s hardworking union members by making practical reporting adjustments to reflect the growth and expansion of labor organizations’ financial operations since the passage of the LMRDA. The Office of Labor-Management Standards last substantially revised the Form LM-2 in 2003 and has not updated reporting thresholds for Forms LM-3 and LM-4 since 1992.

“Modern unions are financially complex organizations,” said Office of Labor-Management Standards Director Elisabeth Messenger. “The final rule fine tunes reporting requirements for larger labor organizations – many of which report tens of millions of dollars in assets each year – and adjusts thresholds for smaller labor organizations to increase transparency for America's hardworking union members and ensure reporting requirements keep pace as labor organizations evolve.” 

Additionally, the rule allows union members to stay better informed of their union’s financial conditions and operations by making it easier to see how their union dues are spent. Increasing union financial transparency better enables members to meaningfully and effectively participate in the democratic governance of their union. The reforms also serve as a deterrent to fraud and embezzlement, and aid in their detection.

The Office of Labor-Management Standards administers and enforces provisions of the LMRDA, which promotes union democracy and financial integrity in private sector labor unions, transparency for labor unions and their officials, as well as transparency for employers and labor relations consultants. 

Report labor-management fraud and other criminal activity by email to OLMS-Public@dol.gov, to the OLMS National Office at 202-693-0143, or to your local OLMS field office.

 

 OF COURSE IF YOU NOT ALLOWED TO ENFORCE THE RULES ALREADY ON THE BOOKS WHAT GOOD ARE NEW RULES

DOES THIS ACTUALLY MEAN MORE PROTECTIONS FOR UNION MEMBERS OR DOES IT JUST MEAN ET EYES MCCARRON

WHEN YOUR WRINKLY OLD ASS TUCK AND LIFT GOES HORRIBLY WRONG 

 

 WILL DIG DEEPER INTO UBC MEMBERS POCKETS AND INCREASE THE PAYOFFS TO POLITICAL HACKS  

IT APPEARS TO BE TRUE. A STATEMENT ALLEGEDLY ISSUED BY DAN SIVERTSON THAT JASON ROWE, STACEY ROWE AND TOM CARDINAL REISGNED IS BEING REPORTED IN THE GLOBE AND TRILLIUM

 "According to staff e-mails seen by The Globe, the union’s top official, executive secretary-treasurer Jason Rowe, and his wife, Stacey Rowe, who is also a senior union official, have left their posts. Tom Cardinal, the union’s president and chief of staff, also resigned"

 

IS THE $4 MILLION HOUSE SCAM JUST THE TIP OF THE ICE BERG.MAYBE NOT BUT 

 

THIS HAS TO BE THE FASTEST DIRTY DOUG TAKE DOWN OF A STOOGE ON RECORD

  "Jason Rowe, Stacey Rowe and Tom Cardinal out after media reports of multimillion-dollar homes bought by union"

 

“Please be advised that, effective yesterday, Jason Rowe, Tom Cardinal, and Stacey Rowe resigned from their positions with the Carpenters' Regional Council,” reads Sivertson’s brief email, sent on Friday.

  

 

CONSTRUCTION UNION BOSS QUITS AMID PROBE OVER $4 -MILLION HOME 

JEFF GRAY 

 

The head of the Carpenters’ Regional Council, one of Canada’s largest construction unions, has resigned amid an internal probe prompted by a Globe and Mail investigation that revealed the organization had bought a $4-million house that he and his wife lived in for two years.

According to staff e-mails seen by The Globe, the union’s top official, executive secretary-treasurer Jason Rowe, and his wife, Stacey Rowe, who is also a senior union official, have left their posts. Tom Cardinal, the union’s president and chief of staff, also resigned.

A spokesman for the CRC, which is headquartered in Vaughan, Ont., north of Toronto, did not respond to requests for comment. Mr. Rowe did not respond to messages asking for comment and Ms. Rowe and Mr. Cardinal could not be reached.

The CRC, which says it has 60,000 members in 30 locals across Ontario and Western Canada, oversees hundreds of millions in pension funds and has received millions from the federal and Ontario governments for skills-training programs.

Earlier this month, The Globe reported that the CRC was placed under the supervision of its U.S.-based parent union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, which launched an internal probe.

The move followed a Globe investigation, published in April, that revealed the union’s purchase of the house, which Mr. Rowe and his wife lived in from 2022 to 2024.

The staff e-mails obtained by The Globe say this investigation has not been completed.

The 2022 purchase of the $4-million home in Nobleton, Ont., not far from the union’s Vaughan headquarters, wasn’t the only real estate transaction that has raised questions.

The Globe has also found that the union bought a second house in the same area in 2024, for $2.5-million. The CRC did not respond to questions about why the second house was purchased or whether any senior union officials had lived in it.

Property records show that the same numbered company that purchased the first home also purchased the second. Mr. Rowe and his wife were both listed as directors of the numbered company at the time, and Mr. Rowe was listed as acting for the company on both transactions.

The two properties were transferred for $0 to the Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp. that year. The union has said it owns both that corporation and the numbered company but has not explained the reason behind the transfers or the use of the numbered company.

The second property is now listed for sale. According to the real estate listing, it has four bedrooms, five bathrooms and a family room with a 20-foot ceiling.

Earlier this month, the U.S. parent union’s general president, Douglas McCarron, sent a letter to union leaders, obtained by The Globe, saying that his organization would investigate the newspaper’s revelations about the Ontario-based branch’s purchase of the $4-million home.

Mr. McCarron did not respond to a request for comment.

The union has acknowledged that Mr. Rowe and his wife lived in the property from 2022 to 2024. It was later rented out.

The Globe reported that the union’s executive board was not told about the first house and its intended purpose and did not vote on the purchase, citing a source familiar with the union’s decision-making. The Globe did not name the source because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the union’s internal matters.

After first telling The Globe that the $4-million home “was not purchased for the use of any one person,” the CRC later said the house was needed, on a short-term basis, for Mr. Rowe, who lived in Manitoba before being brought in to lead a restructuring of the organization.

The CRC said the decision to purchase the first house “was disclosed to members of our executive board” and “approved through our established governance processes, including oversight under the organization’s bylaws.”

But the union did not directly answer questions on whether the executive board had voted on the purchase or provide details of what it says was disclosed.

At the time of the purchase of this first house, the CRC was also under a form of supervision known as a trusteeship, imposed by its U.S. parent. This allowed for Mr. Rowe to be installed as executive secretary-treasurer and left control of the CRC with him and a handful of appointed trustees.

Neither the CRC nor its U.S. parent have answered questions about this previous trusteeship. According to a disclosure document filed with the U.S. Department of Labor in April, 2022, it was imposed to “correct corruption or financial malpractice.” But the document provides no details of any allegations or what was done to address them at the time.

Under Mr. Rowe’s leadership, the CRC endorsed Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives for the first time, just before the 2025 election – after the union had received $27-million from the province’s Skills Development Fund.

In pictures posted on the Premier’s Facebook page from a February, 2025, campaign event marking the endorsement, Mr. Ford can be seen shaking Mr. Rowe’s hand and applauding as he speaks to union members.

The CRC also endorsed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals before the federal election that year.

CARPENTERS UNION OFFICIALS RESIGN AS PROBE CONTINUES

READ IT HERE 

 

Three officials at a major Ontario construction union, including its top leader, are out as an internal investigation into the union’s finances continues.

Jason Rowe, Stacey Rowe and Tom Cardinal resigned from the Carpenters’ Regional Council (CRC) on Thursday, according to an email sent on behalf of Dan Sivertson, international business representative at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA), the CRC’s U.S. parent union.

Jason Rowe was the CRC’s top leader as its executive-secretary treasurer, as well as the U.S. union’s Canadian district vice-president. His wife, Stacey Rowe, has also served as a CRC official.

Cardinal was the CRC’s chief of staff, another top official.

An investigation into the Carpenters’ Regional Council by its American parent was launched after The Globe and Mail reported that the CRC had purchased a $4-million home north of Toronto, in which Rowe and his wife lived.

On Friday, The Trillium reported that the CRC purchased a second, $2.5-million home in the same area. It is unclear how that house was used.

The union has rented out the $4-million home and has been trying to sell the $2.5-million home since February.

“Please be advised that, effective yesterday, Jason Rowe, Tom Cardinal, and Stacey Rowe resigned from their positions with the Carpenters' Regional Council,” reads Sivertson’s brief email, sent on Friday.

“The International continues their open investigation,” the email reads, referring to the UBCJA.

The CRC and Sivertson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The CRC is a major supporter of the Progressive Conservatives and has been one of the top beneficiaries of the Ford government’s controversial Skills Development Fund (SDF).

The union hosted a fundraiser for Labour Minister David Piccini’s riding association in 2024, and months later received the largest grant in that round of SDF funding at $14 million. Shortly after, the CRC announced it was endorsing Doug Ford’s PC Party for the first time.

 

  I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT DAN SIVERSTON AND HIS INVESTIGATIVE CLOWN TEAM WERE STILL STUCK AT THE BORDER MAKING BALLOON ANIMALS

 

AND ONCE AGAIN DOUGY WHO IS DAN SIVERTSON.NOT ONE OF YOUR USUAL STOOGES.DID YOU GET YOURSELF A NEW USED CONDOM SALESMAN??

JASON ROWE AND PALS BOUGHT A SECOND MULTI MILLION DOLLAR HOUSE.

  

CARPENTERS BOUGHT SECOND MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR HOME IN 

$2.5-million, $4-million homes purchased 14 months apart

Jack Hauen

READ IT HERE

 

The Carpenters’ Regional Council purchased another home north of Toronto, and is currently trying to sell it.

A numbered company controlled by union leadership bought the four-bedroom, five-bathroom house in Nobleton in January 2024 for $2.489 million.

The purchase came just over a year after the same numbered company bought another, $4-million home three kilometres away. That house was used by the Carpenters’ Regional Council’s (CRC) top leader, Jason Rowe, and his wife, The Globe and Mail reported last month.

It is unclear how the $2.5-million home was used.

The CRC did not comment by press time.

Situated in the upscale Gates of Nobleton neighbourhood, the 3,524 square-foot home has a three-car garage, 20-foot family room ceilings, a professionally landscaped backyard and a finished basement with its own kitchen and laundry room, according to real estate listings.

On Thursday, the house appeared as though it had not been occupied in recent days. Flyers were stuck in the door jamb, and a newspaper on the driveway was one week old.

While the $4-million home has been rented out, the $2.5-million home is currently for sale, for the same amount the union paid. The listing has been up since February.

Land transfer documents show that Rowe, the CRC’s executive-secretary treasurer, signed off on both the initial purchase and the transfer to the union’s corporation.

Both homes were transferred to the union-owned Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp. on the same date in May 2024, each of their property records shows.

The numbered company also bought a $38.9-million commercial building in Vaughan in December 2023 to serve as the union’s head office and training centre.

The training centre is about a half-hour drive from both homes in Nobleton.

At the time of the $2.5-million home’s purchase, the numbered company was directed by Rowe, his wife Stacey Rowe (then known as Stacey Kerr), and the CRC’s general counsel, Mark Lewis, who died in the summer of 2023.

The numbered company’s current directors are Pasquale Bono, Ontario residential coordinator and financial secretary for Carpenters' Local 27; CRC regional manager Kurt Kashuba; Cynthia Sisconetto, the union’s director of investment portfolio management; and Tomi Hulkkonen, a local coordinator for local 494 in Windsor, who died in January. These directors were named on Nov. 8, 2024.

On the same day, the same four directors took over the Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp.

Previously, the directors were Rowe, Lewis, CRC chief of staff Tom Cardinal, and Ottawa local area manager Rod Thompson.

U.S. Department of Labour records show the Ontario-based wing of the Carpenters’ union was put under a trusteeship by its parent union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA), in April 2022 to “correct corruption or financial malpractice.” The trusteeship ended in November of that year.

After The Globe and Mail revealed the $4-million home, the CRC once again went into trusteeship under the American parent union. The Globe reported that the UBCJA is investigating the issues raised in the article.

The CRC is a major supporter of the Progressive Conservatives and has been one of the top beneficiaries of the Ford government’s controversial Skills Development Fund (SDF). The group, its locals and training centres have received tens of millions of Labour Ministry grants, funded by provincial taxpayers, over the last few years.

The CRC was the recipient of the largest SDF grant in the fifth and most recent round at $14 million.

In May 2024, the carpenters’ union hosted a fundraiser that banked Labour Minister David Piccini’s riding association almost $120,000.

Two months later, the Ministry of Labour started accepting applications for the fifth round of Skills Development Fund grants. Premier Doug Ford’s office announced early in 2025 that the CRC would receive $14 million from the SDF’s fifth round, plus another $13 million through the program’s capital stream. The union published a news release celebrating the “unprecedented” amount of funding it received.

Days later, Ford called an early provincial election. One week before the Feb. 27 voting day, the Carpenters’ Regional Council announced that ”for the first time ever” it was endorsing Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives.

 

THE GLOBE ALSO RAN A STORY ON THE SECOND HOUSE 

 

CONSTRUCTION UNION FACING PROBE BOUGHT SECOND HOUSE FOR $2.5 MILLION 

JEFF GRAY 

 

 

One of Canada’s largest construction unions, which is facing an internal probe after The Globe and Mail revealed it had bought a $4-million house north of Toronto for the use of its top official, also purchased a second home, for $2.5-million, just minutes away.

The Carpenters’ Regional Council (CRC) was placed under the supervision of its U.S.-based parent union earlier this month after The Globe reported that its executive secretary-treasurer, Jason Rowe, had lived in the $4-million home for two years along with his wife, Stacey Rowe, who was also a senior union official.

Property records show that the same numbered company that purchased the first home in Nobleton, Ont., in November, 2022, also purchased another nearby house for $2.489-million, in January, 2024. Mr. Rowe and his wife were both listed as directors of the numbered company at the time, and Mr. Rowe was listed as acting for the company on both transactions.

The two properties were transferred for $0 to the Carpenters’ Regional Council Building Corp. that year. The union has said it owns both that corporation and the numbered company, but has not explained the reason behind the transfers or the use of the numbered company.

A spokesman for the CRC did not respond to e-mails this week asking questions about the second house – including who lived in the second property, which is now listed for sale. According to the real-estate listing, it has four bedrooms, five bathrooms and a family room with a 20-foot ceiling.

Mr. Rowe could not be reached Friday.

The CRC, which is based in Vaughan, Ont., and says it has 60,000 members in 30 locals across Ontario and Western Canada, oversees hundreds of millions in pension funds and has received millions from the federal and Ontario governments for skills-training programs. Under Mr. Rowe’s leadership, it endorsed Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives for the first time, just before the 2025 election.

Earlier this month, The Globe reported that the executive board of the CRC had voted to place itself under the supervision of its U.S. parent union, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

In a letter to union leaders obtained by The Globe, the U.S. parent union’s general president, Douglas McCarron, said the organization would conduct an internal probe into the newspaper’s revelations about the Ontario-based branch’s purchase of the $4-million home. Mr. McCarron could not be reached Friday.

The union has acknowledged that Mr. Rowe and his wife lived in the $4-million property from 2022 to 2024. It was later rented out.

The Globe reported last month that the union’s executive board was not told about the house and its intended purpose and did not vote on the purchase, citing a source familiar with the union’s decision-making. The Globe did not name the source because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the union’s internal matters.

After first telling The Globe that the $4-million home “was not purchased for the use of any one person,” the CRC later said the house was needed, on a short-term basis, for Mr. Rowe, who lived in Manitoba before being brought in to lead a restructuring of the Ontario-based organization.

The CRC said the decision to purchase the first house “was disclosed to members of our executive board” and “approved through our established governance processes, including oversight under the organization’s bylaws.”

But the union did not directly answer questions on whether the executive board had voted on the purchase, or provide details of what it says was disclosed.

At the time of the purchase of this first house, the CRC was also under a form of supervision known as a trusteeship, imposed by its U.S. parent. This allowed for Mr. Rowe to be installed as executive secretary-treasurer and left control of the CRC with him and a handful of appointed trustees.

Neither the CRC nor its U.S. parent have answered questions about this previous trusteeship. According to a disclosure document filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, the April, 2022, it was imposed to “correct corruption or financial malpractice.” But the document provides no details of any allegations or what was done to address them at the time.

 

I AM SURE IT IS ALL LEGIT.MAYBE THE COUNCIL WAS GETTING INTO THE AIR BNB RACKET'S

 

 THE RUMOR MILL IS ACTIVE  AND OUT AND ABOUT TODAY .DID JASON ROWE AND OTHERS INCLUDING TOM CARDINAL RESIGN????

 THIS WAS POSTED ONLINE.AT THIS POINT I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY CONFIRMATION BUT IS WAS NOT POSTED ANONYMOUSLY

 

AT THIS POINT ITS JUST A RUMOR BUT WE SHALL SEE