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[CITE: 45USC184]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
                        CHAPTER 8--RAILWAY LABOR
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--CARRIERS BY AIR
 
Sec. 184. System, group, or regional boards of adjustment

    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.

(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, Sec. 204, as added Apr. 10, 1936, ch. 166, 49 
Stat. 1189.)
