Officers

President - Charles Fisher, The Ruhlin Company
Vice President - Robert A. Hurley, Kelley Steel Erectors, Inc.
Secretary/Treasurer - Jim Mirgliotta, Forest City Erectors, Inc.
Executive Secretary - John Porada, Construction Employers Association

Purpose and Objectives

The purposes for which this Association is formed are:

• To deal with technical and trade promotional problems of the bridge, structural and ornamental iron industry in the jurisdictional area covered by Iron Workers Local No. 17.

• To strive for improvement of employer-labor relations within the industry and for reasonable and equitable solutions to problems of labor, including labor working conditions.

• To do any and all other lawful acts and things to develop the ability of the industry better to serve the public, to promote the expansion of the bridge, structural and ornamental iron industry and to protect any other legitimate common interests of the members.

Membership – Eligibility

Any person, firm, partnership or corporation actively engaged in employing Iron Workers belonging to Iron Workers Local No. 17 shall be considered a steel and iron contractor and shall be eligible for membership subject to the requirements, terms and conditions of membership.

Members

• A. E. Steel Erectors, Inc.
• Forest City Erectors, Inc.
• Industrial First, Inc.
• Kelley Steel Erectors, Inc.
• Midwest Equipment Company
• Norris Brothers Co., Inc.
• Olmsted Falls Erecting Co., Ltd.
• PM Construction & Engineering, Inc.
• The Ruhlin Company
• The R. G. Smith Company
• Standard Contracting & Engineering
• Stevens Painton Corporation
• Superior Erection Company
• Tesar Industrial Contractors, Inc.
• Whitacre Engineering Company

Click here to download a membership application.