A contractor signatory to a collective bargaining agreement with IBEW Local Union 130, based in New Orleans, can be required by the union's wage and welfare trust fund trustees to post a bond securing timely fringe-benefit contributions on behalf of its electrical workers. The premium is 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, run through a quick soft credit check that never affects your score.
















No long underwriting queue for the standard fringe-benefit bond — enter your amount, pay, and deliver it to the fund office. Here is the whole thing:
Your company details, the bond amount the trust fund required, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Pricing is 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, after a soft credit check that never affects your score. Larger amounts may get a brief review.
Submit the executed bond to the IBEW Local 130 wage and welfare fund office to satisfy your signatory contractor obligation. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
A wage and welfare bond is fringe-benefit security, not a government-mandated license bond. When an electrical contractor signs a collective bargaining agreement with IBEW Local Union 130 in New Orleans, it commits to make regular contributions — health and welfare, pension, and related fringe benefits — to the union's trust funds on behalf of every covered employee's hours worked.
To protect the fund and its members if a signatory contractor falls behind or defaults on those contributions, the trustees of the wage and welfare trust fund can require the contractor to post a bond. This is a private contractual requirement arising from the trust agreement and the collective bargaining agreement — not a Louisiana statute — so the amount, and whether a bond is required at all, follows the fund's own rules rather than a fixed public code section.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal, the signatory contractor), the surety, and the trust fund trustees as obligee. If contributions go unpaid and the fund is harmed, the trustees can claim against the bond, and if the surety pays, the contractor repays the surety. Enter the amount your fund notice specifies; your premium is priced at 2% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
Submit the application with the bond amount the fund trustees set. Approval typically follows a quick soft credit check that never affects your score.
Start the application →Premiums from $100. Enter the amount the trustees set, see your exact price before you pay, and file with the fund the same day.