Title 45 — RailroadsRelease 119-73

§184 System, group, or regional boards of adjustment

Title 45 › Chapter CHAPTER 8— - RAILWAY LABOR › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - CARRIERS BY AIR › § 184

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require airline workers and airlines to try to settle disputes about pay, rules, or working conditions through the normal steps up to the carrier’s chief operating officer. If they cannot agree, either side or both sides can send the case to a suitable adjustment board. Cases that were still before the National Labor Relations Board on April 10, 1936 are included. Require every carrier and its employees, through their chosen representatives, to set up a board of adjustment with only the powers allowed under section 153. These boards can be made by agreement for a single carrier, a system, or a group of carriers and any class of employees. While a permanent National Board of Adjustment is being set up, the parties may also agree to create a temporary national board with limited powers.

Full Legal Text

Title 45, §184

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The disputes between an employee or group of employees and a carrier or carriers by air growing out of grievances, or out of the interpretation or application of agreements concerning rates of pay, rules, or working conditions, including cases pending and unadjusted on April 10, 1936 before the National Labor Relations Board, shall be handled in the usual manner up to and including the chief operating officer of the carrier designated to handle such disputes; but, failing to reach an adjustment in this manner, the disputes may be referred by petition of the parties or by either party to an appropriate adjustment board, as hereinafter provided, with a full statement of the facts and supporting data bearing upon the disputes. It shall be the duty of every carrier and of its employees, acting through their representatives, selected in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, to establish a board of adjustment of jurisdiction not exceeding the jurisdiction which may be lawfully exercised by system, group, or regional boards of adjustment, under the authority of section 153 of this title. Such boards of adjustment may be established by agreement between employees and carriers either on any individual carrier, or system, or group of carriers by air and any class or classes of its or their employees; or pending the establishment of a permanent National Board of Adjustment as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent said carriers by air, or any class or classes of their employees, both acting through their representatives selected in accordance with provisions of this subchapter, from mutually agreeing to the establishment of a National Board of Adjustment of temporary duration and of similarly limited jurisdiction.

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Citation

45 U.S.C. § 184

Title 45 — Railroads

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73