MI Carpenters Council bonds.
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A carpentry contractor signatory to the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters — affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America — posts this bond to guarantee that the wages and fringe-benefit contributions it owes under its collective bargaining agreement actually reach the Council's members and trust funds. It is a union contractual obligation, not a Michigan license requirement. Premiums cost 4% of the bond amount plus a $25 fee, $125 minimum. The application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft credit pull only.

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Runs to the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and the trustees of its benefit funds named in your agreement

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Backs the wages, health and welfare, pension, and other fringe contributions your reports declare

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From $125 — soft pull only, never a hard inquiry — enter the amount your agreement or the fund office names and see your price at application

From $1254% of the bond amount + $25 feeSoft pull onlynever a hard inquiryFastissued the moment you pay

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How it works

Apply to filed in one sitting.

Signatory paperwork usually has a deadline attached, so this one is built to move: enter the amount, pay, and send the executed bond to the fund office. Here is the whole thing:

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Your company details, the bond amount your agreement names, an effective date, and the credit consent that authorizes a soft pull. That is the application.

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Most applications approve quickly. The credit consent authorizes a soft inquiry that never affects your score, and no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.

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Send it to the fund office

Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to go to the benefit fund office administering the Council's trust funds. Wet-ink original mailed on request.

About this bond

What it is and who needs it.

What the wage-and-welfare bond actually guarantees

When a carpentry contractor signs an agreement with the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters — itself affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America — it agrees to pay negotiated hourly wages and fringe-benefit contributions into the Council's multiemployer trust funds for every hour its signatory crews work. Those contributions typically fund health and welfare, pension, and related benefit programs administered on the members' behalf.

Those contributions are not the contractor's money to hold. ERISA § 515, 29 U.S.C. § 1145, makes an employer obligated to contribute to a multiemployer plan under a collectively bargained agreement pay in accordance with that agreement, and 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(2) puts real teeth behind a successful collection suit — unpaid contributions, interest, liquidated damages, and the funds' attorney fees and costs.

The bond is how the Council and its funds shorten the gap between hours worked and contributions collected. Rather than chase a contractor after the fact, the trustees hold a surety's promise that a stated sum stands behind the wages and contributions your agreement requires — so member pay and benefit eligibility do not depend on a signatory contractor's cash position in a slow month. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Keep it continuous for as long as you remain signatory.

Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters collective bargaining agreement — not a Michigan statute · ERISA § 515 (29 U.S.C. § 1145)This is a private, contractual bond — Michigan has no statute requiring it. The obligation comes from the collective bargaining agreement between a signatory carpentry contractor and the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters, together with the trust agreements governing the Council's benefit funds; the obligee named on the bond is the union or the trustees of those funds, so confirm the exact wording and required amount with the fund office before the bond is issued. The federal backdrop is ERISA § 515, 29 U.S.C. § 1145, which requires an employer obligated to contribute to a multiemployer plan under a collectively bargained agreement to make those contributions in accordance with the agreement, and ERISA § 502(g)(2), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(2), which awards unpaid contributions, interest, liquidated damages and fees in a successful collection action; suits on the agreement itself are brought under LMRA § 301, 29 U.S.C. § 185.

You need this bond if you are

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Becoming signatory to the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and the agreement conditions it on a wage-and-welfare bond

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A contractor from outside the jurisdiction taking work covered by a Council agreement

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Replacing an expiring or cancelled bond so your signatory status is never uncovered

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Increasing the bond amount after your covered payroll or contribution volume grew

One application, then a quick review.

These are the actual issuing fields. The credit consent authorizes a soft pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score.

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FAQ

Common questions.

How much is the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters wage & welfare bond?Premiums cost 4% of the bond amount, plus a $25 fee, with a $125 minimum. Enter the penal sum your agreement or the fund office names and your exact price appears at the application.

What amount should I enter?The figure your collective bargaining agreement or the Council's fund office specifies. Wage-and-welfare bonds are typically sized off covered payroll and the contribution volume the funds expect from you, so the number is specific to your shop — ask the fund office if your paperwork is silent.

What does the bond guarantee?That the wages and fringe-benefit contributions your reports declare actually reach the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and its trust funds. If they are not paid, the trustees can recover against the bond instead of waiting on a federal collection suit.

Do I pay the full bond amount?No. You pay the premium only. The bond amount is the surety's maximum exposure if the Council or its funds make a valid claim — it is not a deposit, and nobody holds your money.

Is there a credit check?The application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft credit pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score. No hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.

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