PURPOSE AND RECOGNITION 1.01 The general purpose of this Agreement is to establish mutually satisfactory employment relations between the Employer and the Union. It provides means for the settlement of grievances and for the final settlement of disputes. Salaries, hours of work and other conditions of employment are established by mutual agreement. It is recognized that nurses wish to work co-operatively with the Employer to provide the best possible community health services. 1.02 The Employer recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining agent for all registered and graduate nurses employed by the Employer in the Region of Waterloo Public Health, save and except Managers/Facilitators and persons above this classification. 1.03 All references to officers, representatives and committee members of the Union in this Agreement shall be deemed to mean officers, representatives and committee members of the Union's duly chartered bargaining unit, namely: Local #015 - Ontario Nurses' Association. 1.04 Whenever the feminine pronoun is used in this Agreement, it includes the masculine pronoun, where the context so requires and vice-versa. Where the singular is used, it may also be deemed to mean the plural and vice-versa. 1.05 Nurses shall be defined as follows:
Definitions and Related Matters For purposes of this Agreement, the capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them herein or in the attached Exhibit 1 and, for purposes of this Agreement and all other documents executed in connection herewith, the rules of construction set forth in Exhibit 1 shall govern.
Definitions and General Provisions The following words and terms as hereinafter used in this Agreement shall have the following meanings unless otherwise herein provided and unless the context or use clearly indicates an other or different meaning or intent.
Definitions and References Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned in the Credit Agreement. All references to the Credit Agreement contained in the Collateral Documents and the other Loan Documents, as amended or amended and restated, shall, upon the execution of this Amendment, mean the Credit Agreement as amended by this Amendment.
RECOGNITION AND DEFINITIONS Section 1 - Recognition