Title 45 — RailroadsRelease 119-73

§185 National Air Transport Adjustment Board

Title 45 › Chapter CHAPTER 8— - RAILWAY LABOR › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - CARRIERS BY AIR › § 185

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Mediation Board can create a permanent National Air Transport Adjustment Board when it decides one is needed to quickly and orderly settle disputes between airlines and their employees about grievances or how contracts are applied, including pay, rules, and working conditions. The Board must order the airlines and national employee labor groups to pick four members total: two chosen by the airlines and two by the labor organizations, within 30 days. The new board must meet within 40 days, organize, and make rules. It has the same powers and procedures as the National Railroad Adjustment Board for filling vacancies, appointing members if parties fail to do so, holding hearings, making and enforcing decisions, and paying members and assistants, but only up to the limits given in this law. Once the national board is organized, any system, group, or regional adjustment board that either party finds unsatisfactory can choose to come under the National Air Transport Adjustment Board by giving 90 days’ notice to the other party.

Full Legal Text

Title 45, §185

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When, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, it shall be necessary to have a permanent national board of adjustment in order to provide for the prompt and orderly settlement of disputes between said carriers by air, or any of them, and its or their employees, growing out of grievances or out of the interpretation or application of agreements between said carriers by air or any of them, and any class or classes of its or their employees, covering rates of pay, rules, or working conditions, the National Mediation Board is empowered and directed, by its order duly made, published, and served, to direct the said carriers by air and such labor organizations of their employees, national in scope, as have been or may be recognized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to select and designate four representatives who shall constitute a board which shall be known as the “National Air Transport Adjustment Board.” Two members of said National Air Transport Adjustment Board shall be selected by said carriers by air and two members by the said labor organizations of the employees, within thirty days after the date of the order of the National Mediation Board, in the manner and by the procedure prescribed by section 153 of this title for the selection and designation of members of the National Railroad Adjustment Board. The National Air Transport Adjustment Board shall meet within forty days after the date of the order of the National Mediation Board directing the selection and designation of its members and shall organize and adopt rules for conducting its proceedings, in the manner prescribed in section 153 of this title. Vacancies in membership or office shall be filled, members shall be appointed in case of failure of the carriers or of labor organizations of the employees to select and designate representatives, members of the National Air Transport Adjustment Board shall be compensated, hearings shall be held, findings and awards made, stated, served, and enforced, and the number and compensation of any necessary assistants shall be determined and the compensation of such employees shall be paid, all in the same manner and to the same extent as provided with reference to the National Railroad Adjustment Board by section 153 of this title. The powers and duties prescribed and established by the provisions of section 153 of this title with reference to the National Railroad Adjustment Board and the several divisions thereof are conferred upon and shall be exercised and performed in like manner and to the same extent by the said National Air Transport Adjustment Board, not exceeding, however, the jurisdiction conferred upon said National Air Transport Adjustment Board by the provisions of this subchapter. From and after the organization of the National Air Transport Adjustment Board, if any system, group, or regional board of adjustment established by any carrier or carriers by air and any class or classes of its or their employees is not satisfactory to either party thereto, the said party, upon ninety days’ notice to the other party, may elect to come under the jurisdiction of the National Air Transport Adjustment Board.

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Citation

45 U.S.C. § 185

Title 45 — Railroads

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73