unilateral

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Proving that the law's purpose is less to improve workers 'conditions than to capture dues payers for the unions, the law would forbid employers from discouraging unionization by giving "unilateral" - not negotiated - improvements in compensation and working conditions.

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  1. adjective Of, on, relating to, involving, or affecting only one side: "a unilateral advantage in defense” (New Republic).
  2. adjective Performed or undertaken by only one side: unilateral disarmament.
  3. adjective Obligating only one of two or more parties, nations, or persons, as a contract or an agreement.
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  • Obama's foreign policy will be expected to be all the things that many in the Muslim world saw as lacking in the Bush administration, which was viewed as neo-colonial, unilateral, arrogant, militant and interventionist. —  altmuslim
  • Pyelonephritis is usually unilateral, affecting only one kidney.
  • You go for more unilateral, arrogant, but still escapism policy? —  Democracy Now!
  • The withdrawal was officially called the unilateral Israeli disengagement from Gaza. —  Democracy Now!
  • But it is a perfect example of the kind of unilateral, categorical thinking I described. —  Lean Left
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  1. from Latin unus, one, + latus (later-), side, + -ate.
 

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