PROGRAM AND PERFORMANCE 1. Mediation. The Board mediates labor disputes and determines collective bargaining representatives for 700 carriers and the one million employees in the railroad and airline industries. 1 Includes cases closed pursuant to moratorium provisions contained in national railroad agreements. When 2. Voluntary arbitration and emergency disputes. mediation fails, the parties are urged to submit their differences to arbitration. I neither mediation nor voluntary arbitration is successful, the President, when notified of disputes which threaten seriously to interrupt service, may appoint an emergency board to investigate and report on the disputes as a basis for agreement. 3. Adjustment of Railroad Grievances. Railroad employee grievances resulting from application of collective bargaining contracts may be brought for settlement to the National Railroad Adjustment Board. The Divisions of the Board are composed of an equal number of carrier and union representatives compensated by the party or parties he represents. Administrative direction and guidance is provided by the Staff Director/Grievances and clerical assistants who are compensated by the National Mediation Board. The appropriation also provides for neutral referees to sit with the Board when they are deadlocked. Boards of Adjustment are also financed under this activity. |