A contractor signatory to the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 24 collective bargaining agreement files a $10,000 wage & fringe benefit bond with the Local — ours is $400 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. This application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft pull only — never a hard inquiry.
















A wage & fringe benefit filing is about the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details, an effective date, the date of your agreement, and a soft credit consent. That's the application — no financial statements.
Wage & fringe benefit filings like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 24 benefit office. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 24 — whose territory covers 49 Ohio counties along with parts of Kentucky, West Virginia, and Indiana — requires signatory contractors bound by its collective bargaining agreement to post a wage & fringe benefit bond. It is not an Ohio license bond; there is no statute conditioning it. It is a Local-office requirement, negotiated into the labor agreement, that backstops the contractor's promise to pay wages and fringe-benefit contributions the agreement obligates.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and Local Union No. 24 (the obligee), with covered union members as the protected parties. If a signatory contractor falls behind on wages or fringe contributions the agreement covers, the Local can make a claim against the bond to recover what is owed.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond must stay active for the life of your agreement with the Local, so confirm your exact filing amount and renewal cadence with Local 24's benefit office before you file, since that is the authority that sets and enforces this bond, not the state.
These are the actual issuing fields — the only credit-related item is a soft-pull consent.
Start the application →$400 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.