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:: Friday, March 21, 2003 ::

Writing the Rules For Others to Leave

The March 20, 2003 legal victory for the BC Provincial Council of Carpenters is an opportunity for other dissidents of the UBCJA to step up their resistance to McCarron.

The Supreme Court of BC ruling says, in effect, that Local Union assets belong to UBCJA members and not to the UBCJA headquarters or International leadership. Members have a right, Justice Madam Brown indicates, to protect their own assets from an unruly International.

The court also said that McCarron’s restructuring initiatives in BC have been done in bad faith. Any orders from McCarron for BC to “govern ourselves accordingly” are requested in bad faith. In other words, any requests for information, records etc. from McCarron to the BC Provincial Council are made with ulterior motives lurking behind.

Justice Brown states in paragraph 50 of the ruling:

“I do not accept that the 10B directive was issued to obtain an accurate inventory of the assets of the Brotherhood in British Columbia.”

Justice Brown’s ruling includes testimony from McCarron which indicates that he was not concerned with the health of Provincial Council assets when he ordered the Provincial Council turn over their records and books. McCarron here answers questions from Provincial Council lawyers, given under oath:

Q: Okay, two of co-plaintiffs, Mike Autzen and Wayne Cox, are on the Provincial Council, aren’t they?

McCarron: I believe they are, yes.

Q: Yes. Did you ask them what assets the Provincial Council had?

McCarron: No.

Q: Why not?

McCarron: I didn’t.

Q: I mean if your concern is to get a handle on the assets, why didn’t you ask them?

McCarron: I didn’t.

Q: No explanation?

McCarron: No.


We encourage all International dissidents to comb over the judgment since it may aid their legal and/or political struggle with McCarron.

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