True. The current USPS employee union, according to the Wiki article, is a combination of previously existing USPS employee unions.
We cannot strike.
If that's true then how did the strike of 1970 happen? Were federal employee strikes legal in 1970?
This was when the post office was the Post Office Dept. not the US Postal Service
>>The Postal Reorganization Act signed by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970, replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the independent United States Postal Service. The Act took effect on July 1, 1971.
(Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Postal_Service_strike_of_1970
>>The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was a groundbreaking two-week strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. President Richard Nixon called out the United States armed forces and the National Guard in an attempt to distribute the mail and break the strike.
The strike led directly to passage of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which modernized the postal service and _provided for collective bargaining_ for postal workers.At the time, postal workers were not permitted by law to engage in collective bargaining. Striking postal workers felt wages were very low, benefits poor and working conditions unhealthy and unsafe. The U.S. Post Office Department’s management was outdated and, according to workers, haphazard. Informal attempts by workers to obtain higher pay and better working conditions had proven fruitle