Definitions
1 (1) In this Act, “bargaining agent” means the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3903; (“agent négociateur”) “employees” means the employees of the employer who are represented by the bargaining agent; (“employés”) “employer” means York University; (“employeur”) “listed bargaining unit” means any of the following: 1. The bargaining unit referred to as Unit 1 in the collective agreement between the employer and the bargaining agent effective from November 16, 2005 to August 31, 2008 as described in Article 3 of that agreement which unit is composed of all part-time employees registered at York University as full-time graduate students and employed in teaching, demonstrating, tutoring or marking. 2. The bargaining unit referred to as Unit 2 in the collective agreement between the employer and the bargaining agent effective from November 16, 2005 to August 31, 2008 as described in Article 3 of that agreement which unit is composed of all employees employed in teaching, demonstrating, tutoring or marking, save and except, i. persons who are employed in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Administrative Studies, the Department of Administrative Studies in Atkinson College, the Centre for Continuing Education or in courses intended primarily for students who are not registered in a degree credit program, ii. full-time graduate students registered at York University, iii. persons holding part-time appointments at or above the rank of lecturer, iv. persons whose salaries are paid other than from operating funds, v. persons holding full-time academic appointments at the University, vi. persons employed in a confidential labour relations capacity, vii. persons engaged in graduate level teaching in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, and viii. retirees from the full-time faculty of York University whose terms and conditions of employment are governed by the terms of the YUFA collective agreement. 3. The bargaining unit referred to as Unit 3 in the collective agreement between the employer and the bargaining agent effective from November 16, 2005 to August 31, 2008 as described in Article 3 of that agreement which unit is composed of all graduate students registered as full-time at York University who are receiving financial assistance from or through the University and in connection with such assistance are employed in administrative, clerical and research work save and except research assistants, supervisors, persons above the rank of supervisor, and persons for whom a trade union held bargaining rights at the date of application by the bargaining agent for certification in respect of this unit; (“unité de négocation désignée”) “Minister” means the Minister of Labour; (“ministre”) “new collective agreement”, when used with respect to a listed bargaining unit, means a collective agreement that, (a) applies to the employees in that unit, and (b) is executed after the day this Act receives Royal Assent or comes into force under subsection 19 (5); (“nouvelle convention collective”) “parties”, when used in relation to a dispute, a mediation-arbitration proceeding dealing with the dispute or a new collective agreement, means the employer and the bargaining agent. (“parties”)  2009, c. 1, s. 1 (1). Interpretation (2) Expressions used in this Act have the same meaning as in the Labour Relations Act, 1995, unless the context requires otherwise.  2009, c. 1, s. 1 (2).