---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 181"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "181"
heading: "Compilation of collective bargaining agreements, etc.; use of data"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/181"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Labor-Management Relations"
  - "Subchapter III — Conciliation of Labor Disputes; National Emergencies"
---

# §181. Compilation of collective bargaining agreements, etc.; use of data

- (a) For the guidance and information of interested [representatives](/usc/29/152.md?p=4) of [employers](/usc/29/152.md?p=2), [employees](/usc/29/152.md?p=3), and the general public, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor shall maintain a file of copies of all available collective bargaining agreements and other available agreements and actions thereunder settling or adjusting [labor disputes](/usc/29/142.md?p=3). Such file shall be open to inspection under appropriate conditions prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, except that no specific information submitted in confidence shall be disclosed.
- (b) The Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of labor is authorized to furnish upon request of the Service, or [employers](/usc/29/152.md?p=2), [employees](/usc/29/152.md?p=3), or their [representatives](/usc/29/152.md?p=4), all available data and factual information which may aid in the settlement of any [labor dispute](/usc/29/152.md?p=9), except that no specific information submitted in confidence shall be disclosed.

## Source credit

(June 23, 1947, ch. 120, title II, § 211, 61 Stat. 156.)