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[CITE: 45USC185]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
                        CHAPTER 8--RAILWAY LABOR
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--CARRIERS BY AIR
 
Sec. 185. National Air Transport Adjustment Board

    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.

(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, Sec. 205, as added Apr. 10, 1936, ch. 166, 49 
Stat. 1190.)


                    Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

    Application of rules, see rule 81, Title 28, Appendix, Judiciary and 
Judicial Procedure.
    Effect of rules on this section, see note by Advisory Committee 
under rule 81.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 26 section 410; title 29 
section 213; title 49 section 1371.
