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[CITE: 39USC1209]

 
                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
               CHAPTER 12--EMPLOYEE-MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS
 
Sec. 1209. Applicability of Federal labor laws

    (a) Employee-management relations shall, to the extent not 
inconsistent with provisions of this title, be subject to the provisions 
of subchapter II of chapter 7 of title 29.
    (b) The provisions of chapter 11 of title 29 shall be applicable to 
labor organizations that have or are seeking to attain recognition under 
section 1203 of this title, and to such organizations, officers, agents, 
shop stewards, other representatives, and members to the extent to which 
such provisions would be applicable if the Postal Service were an 
employer under section 402 of title 29. In addition to the authority 
conferred on him under section 438 of title 29, the Secretary of Labor 
shall have authority, by regulation issued with the written concurrence 
of the Postal Service, to prescribe simplified reports for any such 
labor organization. The Secretary of Labor may revoke such provision for 
simplified forms of any such labor organization if he determines, after 
such investigation as he deems proper and after due notice and 
opportunity for a hearing, that the purposes of this chapter and of 
chapter 11 of title 29 would be served thereby.
    (c) Each employee of the Postal Service shall have the right, freely 
and without fear of penalty or reprisal, to form, join, and assist a 
labor organization or to refrain from any such activity, and each 
employee shall be protected in the exercise of this right.

(Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 737.)
