Definitions
1. In this Act, “affiliate” means one of the following bodies: 1. L’Association des Enseignants Franco-Ontariens. 2. The Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario. 3. The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association. 4. The Ontario Public School Teachers’ Federation. 5. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation; (“organisation d’enseignants”) “agreement” means a written collective agreement made after the 18th day of July, 1975 and pursuant to this Act between a board and a branch affiliate or branch affiliates or between two or more boards and two or more branch affiliates covering matters negotiable under this Act; (“convention”) “board” means a board of education, public school board, secondary school board, Roman Catholic separate school board or Protestant separate school board and includes a divisional board of education; (“conseil”) “branch affiliate” means an organization composed of all the teachers employed by a board who are members of the same affiliate; (“section locale”) “Commission” means the Education Relations Commission; (“Commission”) “Council” means the Ontario School Trustees’ Council; (“Conseil”) “Federation” means the Ontario Teachers’ Federation; (“Fédération”) “lock-out” means the suspension of employment of, or the refusal to assign work to, teachers other than principals and vice-principals in a school or schools by a board with the view to compelling the cessation of a strike or preventing the resumption of a strike or with the view to inducing or persuading the branch affiliate that represents the teachers to enter into or renew an agreement; (“lock-out”) “member association” means one of the following bodies: 1. L’Association française des conseils scolaires de l’Ontario. 2. Northern Ontario Public and Secondary School Trustees’ Association. 3. Ontario Public School Trustees’ Association. 4. Ontario Separate School Trustees’ Association; (“association de conseillers scolaires”) “party” means a board or a branch affiliate; (“partie”) “principal” means a principal as defined in the Education Act; (“directeur d’école”) “strike” includes any action or activity by teachers in combination or in concert or in accordance with a common understanding that is designed to curtail, restrict, limit or interfere with the operation or functioning of a school program or school programs or of a school or schools including, without limiting the foregoing, (a) withdrawal of services, (b) work to rule, (c) the giving of notice to terminate contracts of employment; (“grève”) “teacher” means, (a) a person who is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers, or (b) a person in respect of whom a letter of permission has been granted under the Education Act, and who is employed by a board under a contract of employment as a teacher in the form of contract prescribed by the regulations under the Education Act, but does not include a supervisory officer as defined in the Education Act, an instructor in a teacher-training institution or a person employed to teach in a school for a period not exceeding one month; (“enseignant”) “vice-principal” means a vice-principal within the meaning of the regulations under the Education Act; (“directeur adjoint”) “vote by secret ballot” means a vote by ballots cast in such a manner that a person expressing his or her choice cannot be identified with the choice expressed. (“scrutin secret”) R.S.O. 1990, c.S.2, s.1; 1996, c. 12, s. 66.