As used in this chapter:
(a) "City" means the City of Sidney, Ohio.
(b) "City employee" means any person employed by the City, whether or not in the classified services of the City, except those excluded in Section 133.02(b).
(c) "Supervisor" means any individual having authority, in the interest of the City, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward or discipline other employees, or responsibility to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or to effectively recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature but requires the use of independent judgment.
(d) "Strike" means the failure to report for duty, the willful absence from one's position, the stoppage of work, the submission of mass conditional resignations, or the abstinence in whole or in part from the full, faithful and proper performance of the duties of employment, for the purpose of inducing, influencing or coercing a change in the conditions, compensation, rights, privileges or obligations of employment, or of intimidating, coercing or unlawfully influencing others from remaining in or from assuming such public employment. This definition does not limit, impair or affect the right of any employee to the expression or communication of a view, grievance, complaint or opinion on any matter related to the conditions or compensation of public employment or their betterment, so long as such expression or communication is not designed to or does not interfere with the full faithful and proper performance of the duties of employment.
(e) "Bargaining unit" means an organization of any kind or any agency or employee representation committee or plan in which City employees participate and which exists, in whole or in part, to deal with the City concerning wages, grievances, labor disputes and terms and conditions of employment.
(f) "Labor organization" means any organization of any kind in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose in whole or in part, of dealing with the City concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of employment; which has filed its constitution and bylaws with the City Manager; and which elects its officers by a secret ballot of its membership.
(Ord. A-1120. Passed 1-19-76.)