The wages and conditions of service of all manual workers (other than building and civil engineering workers) in the electricity supply industry are negotiated by the National Joint Industrial Council (N.J.IC.), which consists of representatives of the Trade Unions and Electricity Boards who are parties to the various Agreements.

    The joint negotiating machinery has operated successfully during the past years.

    Its value as a means for the just and amicable settlement of wages, conditions of service, and matters in dispute, can best be maintained by the full support both of Electricity Boards and Trade Unions.

    The National Joint Industrial Council is, therefore, of the opinion it is in the best interests of every manual worker that he should be a member of a Trade Union which shares with the employers the responsibility for negotiating the wages and conditions of service in the industry.

    The Trade Unions who are parties to the foregoing Agreements are as follows:-

AMALGAMATED ENGINEERING UNION ELECTRICAL TRADES UNION NATIONAL UNION OF ENGINEMEN, FIREMEN,     MECHANICS AND ELECTRICAL WORKERS NATIONAL UNION OF GENERAL AND MUNICIPAL    WORKERS TRANSPORT AND GENERAL WORKERS’ UNION