---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 U.S.C. § 184"
title: "45"
title_heading: "Railroads"
number: "184"
heading: "System, group, or regional boards of adjustment"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/45/184"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Railway Labor"
  - "Subchapter II — Carriers by Air"
---

# §184. System, group, or regional boards of adjustment


The disputes between an [employee](/usc/45/151.md) or group of [employees](/usc/45/151.md) and a [carrier](/usc/45/151.md) or [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) 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](/usc/45/151.md) 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](/usc/45/151.md), 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](/usc/45/151.md) and of its [employees](/usc/45/151.md), acting through their [representatives](/usc/45/151.md), 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](/usc/45/153.md).

Such boards of adjustment may be established by agreement between [employees](/usc/45/151.md) and [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) either on any individual [carrier](/usc/45/151.md), or system, or group of [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) by air and any class or classes of its or their [employees](/usc/45/151.md); or pending the establishment of a permanent National Board of Adjustment as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent said [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) by air, or any class or classes of their [employees](/usc/45/151.md), both acting through their [representatives](/usc/45/151.md) 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.


## Source credit

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