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