---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 U.S.C. § 1202"
title: "39"
title_heading: "Postal Service"
number: "1202"
heading: "Bargaining units"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/39/1202"
units:
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 12 — Employee-Management Agreements"
---

# §1202. Bargaining units


The National Labor Relations Board shall decide in each case the unit appropriate for collective bargaining in the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1). 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](/usc/39/102.md?p=1) or to protect the safety of property, mail, or persons on the premises of the [Postal Service](/usc/39/102.md?p=1); 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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 733.)

## Notes

### 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.