Checklist Item #37 Application for Approval of a Suspension of 

Benefits Under MPRA

Iron Workers Local 17 Pension Fund EIN: 51-0161467

Plan No.: 001

Does the application 

include the required 

excerpts from the 

relevant collective 

bargaining agreements 

and side agreements. 

See section 7.07.

The following information is being provided for the 

application on behalf of the Iron Workers Local 17 

Pension Fund:

• Local 17 Iron Workers Agreement 2013-2018

– Required Excerpts including Article I - Craft

Jurisdiction; Article II - Territory; Article XVII –

Wages Designated for Pension, Insurance,

Annuity and Assessment Check-off; and

Article XXXVI –Duration and

Termination(pages IW17PF_669-692);

• Participation Agreement between the Board

of Trustees for the Iron Workers Local 17

Pension Fund and the Joint Iron Worker Local

No. 17 Apprenticeship Trust Fund(pages

IW17PF_693-695); and

• Participation Agreement between the Board

of Trustees for the Iron Workers Local 17

Pension Fund and the International

Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental

and Reinforcing Iron Workers Local Union No.

17, AFL-CIO(pages IW17PF_696-698).

IW17PF_668
2013-2018

Photo Courtesy of: Scott Cooper #1298199

IW17PF_669
IRON WORKERS LOCAL 17

FRINGE BENEFIT FUNDS, INC.

(Welfare, Pension and Annuity Funds)

3250 Euclid Avenue, Room 150

Cleveland, OH 44115

Mailing Address:

PO Box 6327

Cleveland, OH 44101

Toll Free Number: 1-800/788-8406

Phone: 216/241-1086

Fax: 216/241-2904

JOINT IRON WORKERS

APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING CENTER

1542 East 23rd Street

Cleveland, OH 44114

Phone: 216/685-1781

Fax: 216/685-1544

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Description ....................................................... Article Page

Agreement......................................................................... 1

Preamble........................................................................... 1

Craft Jurisdiction ..............................................................I 1

Territory.......................................................................... II 6

Work Limitation...............................................................III 6

Ironworker Management Progressive Action

Cooperative Trust ................................................IV 6

Employment Regulations..................................................V 7

Stewards..........................................................................VI 10

Work Hours.................................................................... VII 11

Shift Work ......................................................................VIII 12

Overtime And Holidays....................................................IX 13

Wage Rates.......................................................................X 14

Minimum Pay And Reporting Time Inclement

Weather Expense.................................................XI 17

Parking .......................................................................... XII 17

Piecework ......................................................................XIII 17

Work Limitation..............................................................XIV 17

Pay Day ...........................................................................XV 18

Salary Continuation.........................................................XVI 18

Wages Designated For Pension, Insurance, Annuity 

And Assessment Check-off ................................. XVII 19

Ironworker Management Progressive Action

Cooperative Trust ..............................................XVIII 23

Bonding Requirements...................................................XIX 24

Foremen..........................................................................XX 26

Welders And High Tension Bolts.....................................XXI 26

Iron Worker Tools......................................................... XXII 27

Drinking Water-Clothes Room .......................................XXIII 27

Compensation Insurance...............................................XXIV 27

Apprenticeship ...............................................................XXV 27

Jurisdictional Disputes...................................................XXVI 29

Settlement Of Disputes.................................................. XXVII 29

Strikes And Lockouts....................................................XXVIII 31

Subcontracting..............................................................XXIX 31

Construction Industry Service Program...........................XXX 32

Scope Of Agreement ......................................................XXXI 34

Health And Safety Responsibility................................... XXXII 34

Joint Committee............................................................XXXIII 35

Saving Clause................................................................XXXIV 35

Favored Nation Clause...................................................XXXV 35

Duration And Termination............................................XXXVI 36

Boundary Lines.................................................................. 38

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AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into this 30th day of April, 

2013 and to be effective the 1st of May, 2013, by and between STEEL 

AND IRON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION and the CONSTRUCTION 

EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND, hereinafter referred to as 

the “Employer,” and the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE, 

STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTAL AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS 

LOCAL NO. 17, CLEVELAND, OHIO, hereinafter, referred to as the 

“Union.”

As used in this Agreement, the term “Iron Worker” refers to any 

individual performing work covered by this Agreement. All references 

to the masculine pronoun in this Agreement shall be deemed to include 

the feminine pronoun as well. All references to the singular in this 

Agreement shall be deemed to include the plural where appropriate.

PREAMBLE

This Agreement is entered into by collective bargaining to prevent 

strikes and lockouts and to facilitate peaceful adjustment of grievances 

and disputes between Employer and Union in this trade and to prevent 

waste, unnecessary and avoidable delays, and expenses, and, so far as 

possible, to provide for labor’s continuous employment in accordance 

with the conditions herein set forth and at wages herein agreed upon; 

also that stable conditions may prevail in the building industry and 

building costs may be as low as possible, consistent with fair wages and 

conditions, and further, the establishment of the necessary procedures 

by which these ends may be accomplished.

ARTICLE I

CRAFT JURISDICTION

(a) It is agreed that the jurisdiction of work covered by the Agreement is 

that provided for in the charter grant issued by the American Federation 

of Labor (“AFL”) to the International Association of Bridge, Structural, 

Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, hereinafter referred to as 

the “International,” it being understood that the claims are subject to 

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trade agreements and the following five paragraphs:

1. This Agreement covers all field erection and construction work 

traditionally performed by and coming under the jurisdiction of the 

International. The Employer recognizes that the claimed scope of work 

covered under this Agreement by the International is that provided for 

but not limited to the jurisdictional claims contained within the charter 

grant issued by the AFL to the International and contained in Article IV 

of the International’s Constitution.

2. Agreements, national in scope between the International and 

other International Unions covering work jurisdiction and allocation 

and division of work among employees represented for the purpose of 

collective bargaining by such labor organizations, shall be respected 

and applied by the Employer.

3. It is understood and agreed that employers signatory to this 

Agreement shall not sign a stipulation to be bound by the terms of the 

agreement establishing the Impartial Jurisdiction Disputes Board nor 

be bound by its decisions. Any such stipulation that previously may have 

been entered into on or on behalf of the Employer, is rescinded by 

execution of this contract. It is further understood that the parties to this 

Agreement shall not submit any dispute to the Impartial Jurisdictional 

Disputes Board.

4. The foregoing Section 3 shall remain in full force and effect until 

such time as all other employers in the construction industry having 

agreements with the International or its affiliates, and all other unions 

affiliated with the Building and Construction Trades Department, have 

signed a stipulation to be bound by the terms of the agreement and 

decisions of the Impartial Jurisdictional Disputes Board.

5. In the event of any dispute as to jurisdiction of work covered by 

the terms of this Agreement being claimed by unions other than those 

affiliated with the Building and Construction Trades Department, then 

such dispute shall be referred to the International Unions involved, for 

determination by whatever procedures they may adopt. The work shall 

proceed as assigned by the individual Employer until such determination 

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by the International Unions. Any jurisdictional determination shall be 

implemented immediately by the individual Employer involved.

There shall be no strikes, work stoppages, or other interferences 

with the work by reason of jurisdictional disputes.

(b) This Agreement shall cover and include but is not limited to 

the unloading, handling, fabrication, re-fabrication, erection, and 

dismantling of structural, ornamental, reinforcing steel, metals, plastic, 

composite and engineered materials and it is understood and agreed 

that the International claims for its members the fabrication, production, 

erection and construction of all iron, steel, ornamental lead, bronze, 

brass, copper, aluminum, all ferrous and nonferrous metals; precast, 

prestressed and post-stressed (post-tensioning equipment such 

as: jacks, grout machines and materials) concrete structures; and 

replacement materials, agitators, air ducts, anchors, application of all 

sealants such as Thiokol, Neoprene and similar types used to seal metal 

surfaces; aprons, aqueducts, awnings, bar-joist, blast furnaces, bleacher 

seating, book stacks, boilers (sectional water tube, and tubular), boxes, 

brackets, bridges, bucks, bulkheads, bunkers, cableways, caissons, 

canopies, caps, cast tiling, chutes, clips, cofferdams, concentrators, 

conveyors, coolers, coping, corbels, corrugated sheets when attached 

to steel frames; cranes (the erection, installation, handling, operating 

and maintenance on all forms of construction work), crushers, cupolas, 

curtains, dams, decking (metal); roof decking (such as “Colfar” and 

similar type materials, as well as “Trusdeck,” Mahon “M” deck and 

other dual purpose type roof deck), derricks, docks, domes, dredges, 

drums, duct and trench frames and plates, dumb waiter enclosures, 

dumpers, elevators, elevator cars, elevator enclosures, enamel tanks, 

enamel vats, escalators, expanded metals, fascias, false work, fans, 

fencing, fire escapes, fins, flag poles, floor construction and flooring, 

flumes, frames, frames in support of boilers, fronts, fur rooms, gates, 

grating, grillage and foundation work, grill work, guards, hangers, 

hanging ceilings, hoppers, hot rooms, inclines, iron doors, jail and cell 

work, joists (pre-cast, pre-stressed and post-stressed [post-tensioning 

equipment such as: jacks, grout machines and materials]), kalomeined 

doors, kilns, lintels, lockers, locks, louvers, machinery (moving, 

hoisting and placing on foundations), making and installation of all 

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articles made of wire and fibrous rope; marquees, material altered 

in field, such as; framing, cutting, bending, drilling, burning, and 

welding by acetylene gas and electric machines; metal curtain wall, 

metal exterior doors, metal floor decking, metal forms and false work 

pertaining to concrete construction, metal furniture, metal windows 

and enclosures, mixers, monorails, multi-plate, operating devices, 

ovens, overhead doors, pans, panels (insulated and non-insulated, 

factory and field assembled), pen stocks, pile drivers, plates, porcelain 

enameled panels, prefabricated metal buildings, pulverizes, racks, 

railings(including pipe), railroad bridgework and maintenance, rebar 

tie guns, reservoirs, rigging (including shipyards, navy yards, vessels 

and government departments), roofs, rolling doors, rolling shutters, 

safe deposit boxes, safes, sash, scaffolding, seats, shafting, sheet 

piling, shelving, shoring, sidewalk and vault lights, signs, skip hoists, 

skylights, smoke conveyors, spandrels (metal) and (precast concrete), 

spillways, stacks, stairways, stokers, storage rooms, stoves, subways, 

sunshades, solar panels (structural supports), tables, towers, tanks, 

tracks, tramways, travelers, traveling sheaves, trusses (steel, Howe and 

combination), tunnels, vats, vault doors, vaults, ventilators, vertical 

hydraulic elevators, vessels, viaducts, wind turbines (erection of) 

including onshore and offshore, window wall, wire work; wrecking and 

dismantling of all the above and all housesmith work and submarine 

diving in connection with or about the same.

(c) Field alterations on the above mentioned items, together with all 

framing done in the field.

(d) An Iron Worker will be used to straighten, tie or adjust steel rods 

when concrete is being poured, but will not be required as a standby. 

When concrete is poured before or after regular working hours, an 

Iron Worker shall remain on the job to perform his/her regular work 

and be available in case rods need adjustment.

(e) When it becomes necessary in the operation of power operated 

booms or cableways to use a signalman, an Iron Worker shall be 

employed.

(f) On the unloading, handling and setting of stone with powercrawler, 

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locomotive or truck cranes, an Iron Worker shall be employed who will 

work under the supervision of the stone setter.

(g) When erecting structural steel with mobile or power operated rigs 

of any description, the crew shall consist of a foreman and not less than 

four (4) Iron Workers.

(h) When unloading structural steel with power equipment, the crew 

shall consist of a foreman and not less than (4) Iron Workers.

(i) During the unloading and setting of all wall bearing bar joists and 

beams in building construction 24” depth and under, the crew shall be 

a foreman and three (3) Iron Workers; over 24” depth, a foreman and 

four (4) Iron Workers.

(j) When unloading and handling materials, other than structural 

steel, the crew size shall be determined by the Employer consistent with 

safe work practices.

(k) Shear studs on walking surfaces used for composite structural 

design shall be field applied after erection. On columns, webs and 

floorings, shear studs shall be field applied and may be applied prior to 

erection.

(l) Journeymen shall also be employed for the erection, operation and 

removal of travelers, derricks, poles, derrick cars, booms, outriggers 

and spool work as awarded to the International by the AFL, and such 

other items as have been awarded to the International by the Building 

and Construction Trades Department.

(m) No less than six (6) Iron Workers and a foreman shall be employed 

around a guy or stiff leg derrick used on steel erection.

(n) During the unloading and setting of light gauge metal trusses, the 

crew shall be a foreman and three (3) ironworkers.

(o) Pre-Engineered Metal Building. 1. Steel Erection Crew: There 

shall be a Foreman and four (4) ironworkers. One of the four (4) 

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ironworkers shall be a journeyman ironworker. The remaining three 

(3) may be journeyman ironworkers or apprentices. 2. Detail and 

Sheeting: For every seven (7) men there shall be one (1) foreman. 

These men may consist of journeyman ironworkers, or apprentices. 

All Foreman must be journeyman ironworkers, and shall be paid the 

Foreman rate of pay. 3. No money allowance will be paid for the use of 

power tools.

ARTICLE II

TERRITORY

The territory covered by this Agreement shall be the territorial 

jurisdiction of the Union and shall include the following counties; 

Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Erie, Geauga, Huron, Lake, Medina, Portage, 

Summit and Lorain. See territorial jurisdictional boundaries.

ARTICLE III

WORK LIMITATION

No limitation may be placed upon the amount of work which an 

Iron Worker shall perform during the working day, nor shall there be 

any restrictions against the use of machinery, tools, or labor saving 

devices, nor against the use of any materials, raw or manufactured, 

except prison-made materials.

ARTICLE IV

IRONWORKER MANAGEMENT PROGRESSIVE ACTION 

COOPERATIVE TRUST

The Parties recognize the problems created by drug and alcohol 

abuse and the need to develop prevention and treatment programs. 

The Employer and the Union have a commitment to protect people and 

property, and to provide a safe working environment. The purpose of 

the program is to establish and maintain a drug free, alcohol free, safe 

healthy work environment for all Iron Workers. The Employer agrees 

to hold the Union harmless and to bear any expenses incurred by the 

Union in defending litigation arising out of the Employer’s activities in 

carrying out the drug testing program. This Ironworker Management 

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worker shall be required to accept salary continuation/wages in lieu of 

temporary total compensation. Weekly salary continuation/wages shall 

consist of an amount equal to forty (40) hours times the contractual 

straight time hourly rate, less any deductions required by law. Said 

weekly amount may be prorated to a daily amount in the week that 

the Employee goes off or on temporary total compensation. Since the 

Employee shall provide no services for said payment or perform any 

bargaining unit work the employer agrees to pay to the fund thirty (30) 

hours health and welfare per forty (40) hour week in addition to salary/

wage continuation.

ARTICLE XVII

WAGES DESIGNATED FOR PENSION, INSURANCE,

ANNUITY AND ASSESSMENT CHECK-OFF

(a) The Employer agrees to pay as wages the amounts enumerated 

in Article X of this Agreement as “Pension Wage,” “Insurance Wage,” 

and “Annuity Wage.” On overtime, these payments will be made on an 

hour’s paid basis.

(b) The amounts required to be paid as “Pension Wage” shall be 

paid to the Pension Fund which shall be administered pursuant to the 

Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated as of May 1, 1965 which 

shall conform to all requirements of law and which, together with any 

amendments thereto, shall be considered as part of this Agreement as 

though set forth herein. The Agreement and Declaration of Trust shall 

be administered jointly by an equal number of representatives of the 

Steel and Iron Contractors Association and the Union.

(c) Pursuant to the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the parties have 

adopted the Default Schedule of the Rehabilitation Plan published by 

the Board of Trustees of the Iron Workers Local 17 Pension Fund on 

August 15, 2008. The benefit changes apply to Participants retiring or 

terminating employment on or after May 1, 2009, unless otherwise 

stated below. The changes are as follows. 

1. Unreduced Service Pension Benefit eligibility has been revised 

by adding an age 62 requirement with 30 years of Vesting or Benefit 

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Service, and eliminating the requirement of 30 years of continuous 

membership.

2. Unreduced Early Retirement Benefit payable at age 62 has 

been eliminated. Reduced Early Retirement Benefit eligibility has 

been revised by increasing the age requirement to 58. Reduced Early 

Retirement Benefit for Participants retiring between age 62 and age 

65 are reduced by 3% for each year prior to age 65. Reduced Early 

Retirement Benefit for Participants retiring between age 58 and age 62 

are reduced by actuarially equivalent reduction factors for each year 

prior to age 62, plus 3% for each year between age 62 and age 65. 

Participants retiring after age 62 are no longer eligible for a Postponed 

Retirement Increase of 3% per year.

3. The Occupational Disability Pension has been eliminated. The 

Toal and Permanent Disability Pension remains unchanged, except that 

retroactive disability payments for Participants who fail to timely file 

applications are eliminated.

4. The Pre-Retirement Death Benefit (“Return of Contribution 

Death Benefit”) is eliminated effective August 15, 2008. However, 

for any unmarried participant who dies on or after August 15, 2008, 

a surviving non-spouse beneficiaries is eligible to receive a PreRetirement Survivor Annuity.

5. The Five Year Certain Guarantee form of benefit is eliminated. 

The normal form of benefit is now a Joint and 50% Survivor Annuity for 

married Participants and a Single Life Annuity for single Participants.

6. The Lump Sum Payment form of benefit is eliminated effective 

August 15, 2008.

7. A Qualified Joint and 75% Survivor Annuity has been added for 

married Participants.

8. The Pension Credit Hours Bank restoration rule adopted within 

60 months prior to May 1, 2008 has been eliminated so that Participants 

are only entitled to the maximum number of hours in their Hours Bank 

at the time of retirement.

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(d) The amounts required to be paid as “Insurance Wage” shall be 

paid to the Insurance Fund which shall be administered pursuant to the 

Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated as of October 1, 1975, which 

shall conform to all requirements of law and which, together with any 

amendments thereto, shall be considered as part of this Agreement 

as though set forth herein. The Agreement and Declaration of Trust 

shall be administered jointly by an equal number of representatives of 

the Employers and the Union. The payments of the Employers to the 

Insurance Fund shall be used exclusively:

1. To provide group life insurance, accidental death and 

dismemberment insurance, hospital expense insurance, surgical 

expense insurance, medical expense insurance, other health programs, 

and temporary disability benefits to eligible Iron Workers and their 

families in such form and amount as the Trustees of the Insurance Fund 

may determine; and

2. Payment of administration expenses of the Insurance Fund.

(e) The amounts required to be paid as “Annuity Wage” shall be paid 

to the Annuity Fund which shall conform to all requirements of law and 

which together with any amendments thereto, shall be considered as 

part of this Agreement as though set forth herein. The Agreement and 

Declaration of Trust shall be administered jointly by an equal number 

of representatives of the Employers and the Union. The payments to the 

Annuity Fund shall be used exclusively as a savings and annuity plan for 

the exclusive use of members of the International working within the 

jurisdictional boundaries of the Union.

(f) 1) Effective April 1, 2000, a Union working assessment checkoff of four and on half percent (4.5%) of gross pay paid to each Iron 

Worker covered by this Agreement shall be maintained through the 

medium of payroll deduction from the Iron Worker’s hourly rate.

2) A signed authorization card shall be provided for this 

deduction by the Union. Deposits for this deduction must be made 

on or before the fifteenth (15) day of the month following the month 

worked.

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(g) Payments by the Employers to the Iron Workers Fringe Benefits 

Funds, Inc., which cover all Employer contributions and withheld 

assessments as outlined in the previous Articles shall be paid on 

the fifteenth (15) day after the end of the month in which the work 

is performed and if not paid on or before such date, the Employer 

shall be considered delinquent. If the payments and monthly report 

are not received by the last day of the month following the month 

in which the hours were worked, the delinquent Employer will be 

subject to and agrees to pay a delinquency assessment of ten percent 

(10%) of the amount due plus one percent (1%) for each month the 

Employer remains delinquent, to cover the additional cost and expense 

of administration during the period of delinquency. Whenever any 

Employer is delinquent, the Union may (a) require such Employer to 

post a larger bond (reasonably calculated to provide for the wages and 

fringe contributions and deductions called for by this Agreement, based 

on the number of employees and hours of work for the Employer) and/

or (b) require the Employer to pay its contributions and deductions 

payable by the terms of this Agreement under the provisions of any of 

the Agreements and Declarations of Trust of the Fringe Benefit Funds 

either in cash or by cashier’s check, certified check or money order on 

a weekly basis. If any Employer remains delinquent for more than two 

weeks, then the Union may remove Iron Workers from the employ of 

such delinquent Employer, and such removal shall not be considered 

as a violation of this Agreement. In addition the Trustees of the various 

Fringe Benefit Funds may take whatever action they deem necessary to 

collect said delinquent accounts.

(h) The Employer agrees to permit an audit or examination of his 

financial records and books by the Trustees of the various Funds, 

including, but not limited to, the Plan Administrator and /or Plan 

Payroll Auditor or their agents, as the Trustees of said Fringe Funds may 

from time to time authorize. If as a result of said audit or examination 

a substantial deficiency in payments to the Fringe Funds is discovered, 

the Trustees of said Fringe Funds may assess the cost of said audit or 

examination to the Employer, and said cost shall be collectible as any 

other amount due from the Employer to said Fringe Funds. In addition 

to assessing the cost of audits or examinations to the Employer, the 

Trustees of said Fringe Funds may assess reasonable attorney’s fees 

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and costs of any legal actions undertaken by the Trustees to collect the 

deficient payments and said reasonable attorney’s fees and costs shall 

be collectible as any other amount due from the Employer to the Fringe 

Funds.

(i) The employer hereby adopts and agrees to be bound by all the 

terms and provisions of the trust Agreements as well as any rules and 

regulations established thereunder by the Trustees for Funds covered 

by this agreement and as the same are amended from time to time as 

if the Employer was party thereto. The employer further agrees to be 

bound by the rules and procedure for the collection of contributions as 

they are established or as they will be amended from time to time by the 

Trustees of such Funds; including, but not limited to, provisions relating 

to Employer liability for interest charges as set by Trustees, attorney fees 

and audit fees.

(j) In the event a State or National Health Insurance Law becomes 

effective under which the parties to this Agreement are required or 

choose to participate, the Parties agree to meet and discuss appropriate 

courses of action regarding continuation of all, none, or part of the 

then existing Iron Workers’ Local No. 17 Insurance Benefits Plan. In 

such discussion, the Parties shall consider the benefits provided under 

the existing plan, the costs thereof; the benefits of the State and Federal 

Insurance Program and the cost thereof; the methods of financing such 

State or Federal Program including Employer payments, Iron Worker 

payments, taxes, and various combinations thereof.

ARTICLE XVIII

IRONWORKER MANAGEMENT PROGRESSIVE ACTION 

COOPERATIVE TRUST

(IMPACT)

(a) There is hereby established an Ironworker Management Progressive 

Action Cooperative Trust. Effective August 1, 2006. Employers subject to 

the terms of this agreement who employ Iron Workers within the territory 

covered by this agreement shall abide by all terms and conditions of 

the Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust as 

follows:

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(b) A Declaration of Trust shall be prepared by IMPACT and copies shall 

be available for inspection by the parties or other interested persons at 

the Iron Workers Local Union No. 17 office. Said Trust shall be deemed 

part of this agreement.

(c) The general purposes of the Trust to include but not limited to 

the improvement and development of the ironworker industry through 

education, training, communication, cooperation and governmental 

lobbying and legislative initiatives.

(d) The Trust is intended as a labor-management committee within the 

meaning of Section 302 (c)(9) of the Labor Management Relations 

(“Taft-Hartley”) Act so as to permit Employer Contributions. It is 

further intended that the Trust Qualifies as a tax exempt Trust under 

section 501 (c) (5) of the Internal Revenue Code and other applicable 

tax laws.

(e) The IMPACT contribution shall be in lieu of any and all contractual 

requirements for contributions to the National Ironworkers and 

Employers Apprenticeship Training and Journeyman Upgrade Fund 

and the Institute of the Ironworking Industry. In addition, the Union 

and Employer agree by making contributions to IMPACT each of 

them shall become bound to IMPACT’s Drug and Alcohol Screening 

Policy and Procedure or equivalent program and any amendments or 

modifications thereto.

ARTICLE XIX

BONDING REQUIREMENTS

(a) Each Employer of five (5) or fewer Iron Workers shall be 

required to post with the Union a bond of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars 

($25,000.00).

(b) Each Employer of six (6) to Fifteen (15) Iron Workers shall 

be required to post with the Union a bond of Fifty Thousand Dollars 

($50,000.00).

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ARTICLE XXXVI

DURATION AND TERMINATION

The term of Agreement shall be; five (5) years.

1. The working conditions to remain as per this Agreement between 

the Union and the Steel and Iron Contractors Association and the 

Construction Employers Association of Cleveland, for five (5) years; 

May 1, 2013 - April 30, 2018. Unless written notice be given by either 

party to the other at least four (4) months prior to such date or a desire 

for change therein or to terminate the same, it shall continue in effect 

for an additional year thereafter. In the same manner, this Agreement, 

with any amendments thereof, shall remain in effect from year to year 

thereafter, subject to termination at the expiration of any such contract 

year upon notice in writing by either party to the other at least four (4) 

months prior to the expiration of such contract year. Any such notices 

as hereinabove provided for in this Article, whether specifying a desire 

to terminate or to change at the end of the current contract year shall 

have the effect of terminating this Agreement at this time.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we the undersigned, the STEEL AND 

IRON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION, CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYERS 

ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND, and the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

OF BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTAL and REINFORCING IRON 

WORKERS UNION LOCAL NO. 17, hereunto affix our hands as such 

representatives for and on behalf of such associations and the Union, 

its officers and agents, at Cleveland, Ohio, as of the 1st day of May 2013.

For the Union:

Timothy McCarthy (Chair)

Rich Jordan

Dan Beckett

James Cusick

William Meaden

Dan Munnings

Scott Munnings

Bruce Hensley

John Reese

Scott Cooper

Randy Aughenbaugh

Gary Huhn, Jr.

For The Employer:

Chuck Fisher

Jim Mirgliotta

Bob Hurley

Keith LePage

Tim Linville

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IRONWORKERS UNION LOCAL NO. 17

BOUNDARY LINES

CLEVELAND LOCAL NO. 17 WITH: TOLEDO, OHIO

LOCAL NO. 55

WEST BOUNDARY LINE: Sandusky, Ohio

Columbus Avenue north to Sandusky Bay (and/or Lake Erie); 

Columbus Avenue south to present Route 4; Route 4 south to present 

Route 99; from Route 99 south to old Route 224 - all territory to the 

west of the boundary line is to be within the jurisdiction of Local Union 

No.55, Toledo, Ohio.

All territory to the east of the boundary line is to be within the 

jurisdiction of Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio.

Kelly’s Island is to be within the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 17, 

Cleveland, Ohio.

All bridges, tunnels, viaducts, etc., relative to these boundary lines 

shall be under the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio.

CLEVELAND LOCAL NO. 17 WITH: PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

LOCAL NO. 3

EAST BOUNDARY LINE: Ashtabula, Ohio

For the purpose of determining State Prevailing Wage Rates and 

Federal Davis-Bacon Wage Rates in Ashtabula County in Ohio, the wage 

and benefit package of Local Union No. 17 shall prevail.

All territory from the Geauga County Line on the West boundary 

North of State Route 6 and West of State Route 11 and North of Interstate 

Route 90 to the Pennsylvania Line on the East boundary shall fall under 

the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio.

CLEVELAND LOCAL UNION NO. 17 WITH: CANTON, OHIO

LOCAL NO. 550

SOUTH BOUNDARY LINE: Canton, Ohio

All territory north of old Route 224 line to be within the jurisdiction 

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of Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio.

All bridges, tunnels, viaducts, signs, etc., relative to old Route 

224 line to be within the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, 

Ohio,

All territory south of old Route 224 line is to be within the 

jurisdiction of Local Union No. 550, Canton, Ohio, except for everything 

within the city limits of Barberton, Ohio, which shall be under the 

jurisdiction of Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio.

READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, OR WEST TO EAST:

Route old 224 line: Greenwich Avenue - Wooster Road or East Avenue.

Route old 224 line: New 224 line including Cloverleaf.

East Waterloo Road: New 224 line - Attwood Road - Old Route 224.

This will be considered to be the old Route 224 line, except for 

everything within the city limits of Barberton, Ohio, which shall be 

under the jurisdiction of Local Union No.17, Cleveland, Ohio.

CLEVELAND LOCAL NO. 17 WITH: YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO

LOCAL NO. 207

SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY:

West of a line from Middlefield to Shalersville to Deerfield, shall be 

under the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio.

East of a line from Middlefield, to Shalersville to Deerfield, shall be 

under the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 207, Youngstown, Ohio.

Local Union No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio and Local Union No. 207, 

Youngstown, Ohio has agreed that the Ohio County of Ashtabula, shall 

be as follows:

Ashtabula County in Ohio-All territory from the Portage County 

Line on the West boundary South of State Route 6 and East of State 

Route 11 and South of Interstate Route 90 to the Pennsylvania Line on 

the East boundary shall fall under the jurisdiction of Local Union 207, 

Youngstown, Ohio.

Everything south, starting at the Geauga County line, shall be under 

the jurisdiction of Local Union No. 207, Youngstown, Ohio.

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CLEVELAND LOCAL NO. 17 WITH: LOCAL NO._________

NORTH BOUNDARY:

The east boundary line and the west boundary line continuing 

north half-way across Lake Erie. 

STEEL AND IRON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

Construction Center

950 Keynote Circle, Suite 10

Cleveland, Ohio 44131-1802

(216) 398-9860

Chuck Fisher

President, S & I.C.A.

STEEL AND IRON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION MEMBERS

A. E. Steel Erectors, Inc.

Forest City Erectors, Inc.

Industrial First, Inc.

Kelley Steel Erectors, Inc.

Norris Brothers Co., Inc.

Olmsted Falls Erecting Co., Inc.

The Ruhlin Company

R.G. Smith Company, Inc.

Standard Contracting & Engineering, Inc.y

Tesar Industrial Contractors, Inc.

Whitacre Engineering Co.

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CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION

Construction Center

950 Keynote Circle, Suite 10

Cleveland, Ohio 44131-1802

(216) 398-9860

Tim Linville

Executive Vice-President

STEEL AND IRON CONTRACTORS

NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE

Chuck Fisher, Chairman

Robert Hurley

Jim Mirgliotta

Mark Laskey

Keith LePage

Tim Linville

ASSIGNMENT OF BARGAINING RIGHTS CEA MEMBERS

21st Century

A.E. Steel Erectors

BMI Refractory

Carroll Glass

Forest City Erectors

Industrial First

Kelley Steel Erectors, Inc.

Norris Brothers

North Coast Concrete

Olmsted Falls Erecting

Platform Cement

Precast Services

Pro Construction

R.G. Smith Company

Ruhlin Co.

Standard Contracting

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ASSIGNMENT OF BARGAINING RIGHTS TO

STEEL AND IRON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

NON-CEA MEMBERS

Akron Erectors, Inc.

Architectural Products Sales Company

B Steel Erectors, Inc.

Chemsteel Construction Company

Crystal Clear Architectural Metal

Jaam Concrete Construction, Inc.

Kokosing Construction

Mid State Restoration, Inc.

On Site Studwelding, Inc.

PM Construction & Engineering, Inc.

Sun Erecting, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

1. Whereas Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs have 

effectively been developed and adopted by numerous labor unions and 

their respective contractor associations throughout the United States; 

and

Whereas the successful implementation of these programs have 

benefited both labor and management;

Now therefore let it be resolved that if during the term of this Agreement, 

the Ohio Revised Code authorizes ADR programs in the Ohio Workers’ 

Compensation laws, the parties agree to meet and negotiate in good 

faith a program consistent with the legislation.

2. Should the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) be amended 

during the term of this agreement, the Parties agree to meet and 

negotiate in good faith a program consistent with said amendments.

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LOCAL UNION NO. 17

1544 East 23rd Street

Cleveland, OH 44114

Telephone Numbers: (216) 771-5558-59-60-61-93

Akron Office: (330) 535-6913

Toll Free Number: 1-800-774-5558

Fax Number: (216) 771-8242

TITLE NAME

FIN.SEC/TREAS/BUS MGR TIMOTHY MCCARTHY

PRESIDENT JIM CUSICK

VICE PRESIDENT DAN MUNNINGS

RECORDING SECRETARY BRIAN MURRAY

BUSINESS AGENT WEST SCOTT MUNNINGS

BUSINESS AGENT EAST DAN BECKETT

BUSINESS AGENT AKRON RICH JORDAN

EXECUTIVE BOARD JON ROTHKEGEL

EXECUTIVE BOARD JOSH REESE

EXECUTIVE BOARD GARY HUHN JR.

EXECUTIVE BOARD TERRY TRIGALET

EXECUTIVE BOARD RANDY AUGHENBAUGH

EXAM BOARD BOB TOOLIS

EXAM BOARD DAN MCDONALD

EXAM BOARD MICHAEL BOLES

TRUSTEE BETHANY LAPP

TRUSTEE ALEX DAVIS JR.

TRUSTEE PAT MCTAGGART

CONDUCTOR ELI KARIM

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS OLEN STEELMAN

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