🇨🇦 Union boss buys $4-million house through numbered company while members pay dues

Jason Rowe, head of the Carpenters Regional Council, just had his union purchase a $4-million Toronto mansion through a numbered company. Not his own money — union funds. The same workers hammering nails in the cold are financing their leader's real estate portfolio while he lectures about solidarity and fair wages. The numbered company structure? Classic move to obscure ownership and dodge scrutiny.

This is organized labour in 2025: a grift dressed up as worker advocacy. Union leadership has become indistinguishable from the corporate class they claim to fight, except they tax their own members to fund the lifestyle. Rowe joins a long tradition of labour aristocrats who discovered that the real money isn't in representing workers — it's in controlling their dues and spending without accountability.

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