Council Structure and Basic Rules

Note: Over the years the Council rules and procedures have been modified to meet changing conditions and the sponsorship from the employers’ side has been under various organizational titles. However, the basic principles have not been materially altered from the original resolution adopted in 1920.

I. The name of this body, created April 30, 1920, by the joint action of the National Electrical Contractors Association and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (hereinafter called the Member Organizations) shall be

The Council on Industrial
Relations for the Electrical
Contracting Industry
hereinafter referred to as the Council, or CIR.

II. It is the primary purpose of the two Member Organizations to remove the causes of friction and dispute in the Electrical Contracting Industry. Therefore, a principal function of the Council shall be that of study and research to the end that it may act with the fullest knowledge of these causes, and that it may secure the largest possible measure of genuine cooperation between the Member Organizations, and generally between management and labor of the development of the industry as a servant to the public, and for the improvement of the economic and social conditions of all engaged in the industry.

III. The Council earnestly urges upon the Member Organizations, and each constituent body of them, that reasonableness, patience, goodwill and a serious endeavor to see the merits and justice of claims put forward by the other party, which in this case as well as in all other efforts of man to substitute harmony for strife, are an indispensable foundation for cooperative effort without which the Council cannot achieve success in its purpose.

IV. The Council shall be composed of one or more panels consisting of six representatives appointed by each of the Member Organizations, on each panel to serve for such term as each Organization may decide. Each Member Organization may also designate alternate members who may attend executive sessions of the Council but shall not have a voice or vote unless serving for a regular member. When not serving for a regular member, alternate members will function as the Council’s sergeants-at-arms and will perform such other duties as the Co-Chairman may direct. Vacancies from any cause shall be filled by the respective

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