A member of Local 392 (East St. Louis, Ill.), Tad has been an ironworker for 39 years.Brother Kicielinski serves as general vice president and president of the District Council of St. Louis & Vicinity whose jurisdiction includes Local 396 and nine other locals in the Midwest. At Local 392, Tad started out by serving as an executive board member, was elected vice president of the local and finally elected business manager.He left the position of business manager to become the executive director of the Southwestern Illinois Building and Construction Trades Council where he worked diligently to make project labor agreements [PLA] an accepted practice through out the state of Illinois. In 2001, he was called to Washington to become executive assistant to the General President Joseph Hunt. General President Joseph Hunt appointed Tadas Kicielinski general vice president on March 10, 2008.