In The New York Times, author Barbara Ehrenreich and former labor official Gary Stevenson call on employees of the Transportation Security Administration to go on strike, declaring, “the time has come for a genuine, old-fashioned strike, one with picket lines, chants, quickened pulses and the power to reignite the traditional fighting spirit of American labor.”

They note, “a strike by T.S.A. agents, as federal workers, would be illegal, as was the wave of public-sector strikes in the 1960s and ’70s.”

That seems like an important detail, and federal law is not vague on this…