---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 U.S.C. § 185"
title: "45"
title_heading: "Railroads"
number: "185"
heading: "National Air Transport Adjustment Board"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/45/185"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Railway Labor"
  - "Subchapter II — Carriers by Air"
---

# §185. National Air Transport Adjustment Board


When, in the judgment of the National [Mediation Board](/usc/45/151.md), 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](/usc/45/151.md) by air, or any of them, and its or their [employees](/usc/45/151.md), growing out of grievances or out of the interpretation or application of agreements between said [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) by air or any of them, and any class or classes of its or their [employees](/usc/45/151.md), covering rates of pay, rules, or working conditions, the National [Mediation Board](/usc/45/151.md) is empowered and directed, by its order duly made, published, and served, to direct the said [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) by air and such labor organizations of their [employees](/usc/45/151.md), national in scope, as have been or may be recognized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to select and designate four [representatives](/usc/45/151.md) who shall constitute a board which shall be known as the “National Air Transport [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md).” Two members of said National Air Transport [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md) shall be selected by said [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) by air and two members by the said labor organizations of the [employees](/usc/45/151.md), within thirty days after the date of the order of the National [Mediation Board](/usc/45/151.md), in the manner and by the procedure prescribed by [section 153 of this title](/usc/45/153.md) for the selection and designation of members of the National Railroad [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md). The National Air Transport [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md) shall meet within forty days after the date of the order of the National [Mediation Board](/usc/45/151.md) 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](/usc/45/153.md). Vacancies in membership or office shall be filled, members shall be appointed in case of failure of the [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) or of labor organizations of the [employees](/usc/45/151.md) to select and designate [representatives](/usc/45/151.md), members of the National Air Transport [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md) shall be compensated, hearings shall be held, findings and awards made, stated, served, and enforced, and the number and [compensation](/usc/45/231.md?p=h-1) of any necessary assistants shall be determined and the [compensation](/usc/45/231.md?p=h-1) of such [employees](/usc/45/151.md) shall be paid, all in the same manner and to the same extent as provided with reference to the National Railroad [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md) by [section 153 of this title](/usc/45/153.md). The powers and duties prescribed and established by the provisions of [section 153 of this title](/usc/45/153.md) with reference to the National Railroad [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md) 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](/usc/45/151.md), not exceeding, however, the jurisdiction conferred upon said National Air Transport [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md) by the provisions of this subchapter. From and after the organization of the National Air Transport [Adjustment Board](/usc/45/151.md), if any system, group, or regional board of adjustment established by any [carrier](/usc/45/151.md) or [carriers](/usc/45/151.md) by air and any class or classes of its or their [employees](/usc/45/151.md) 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](/usc/45/151.md).


## Source credit

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