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Title 39, Postal ServiceRelease 119-102

§1202 Bargaining Units

Title 39 › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 12 — EMPLOYEE-MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS › § 1202

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Labor Relations Board must pick which group of Postal Service workers can bargain together. It must leave out managers and supervisors; employees who do personnel work unless they only do nonconfidential clerical tasks; mixed groups of professionals and nonprofessionals unless a majority of the professionals vote to join; and security guards who enforce rules to protect Postal property, mail, or people. A union cannot be certified for a guards unit if it includes, or is tied to, members who are not guards.

Full Legal Text

Title 39, §1202

Postal Service, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The National Labor Relations Board shall decide in each case the unit appropriate for collective bargaining in the Postal Service. The National Labor Relations Board shall not include in any bargaining unit—
(1)any management official or supervisor;
(2)any employee engaged in personnel work in other than a purely nonconfidential clerical capacity;
(3)both professional employees and employees who are not professional employees unless a majority of such professional employees vote for inclusion in such unit; or
(4)together with other employees, any individual employed as a security guard to enforce against employees and other persons, rules to protect property of the Postal Service or to protect the safety of property, mail, or persons on the premises of the Postal Service; but no labor organization shall be certified as the representative of employees in a bargaining unit of security guards if such organization admits to membership, or is affiliated directly or indirectly with an organization which admits to membership, employees other than guards.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1971, pursuant to Resolution No. 71–9 of the Board of Governors. See section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as a note preceding section 101 of this title.

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Citation

39 U.S.C. § 1202

Title 39, Postal Service

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102