Poland: Solidarity Strikes

Record ID: 2777

  • Title: Poland: Solidarity Strikes
  • Date: 30th August 1980
  • Summary: In Pope John Paul's native Poland, organised workers forced changes in government policies. Strikes broke out in July about pay and rising prices. In August, the major shipyards at Gdansk and Szczecin stopped work. Coal miners in Silesia joined them. They had a long list of demands, including the abolition of censorship and freedom for religious broadcasting. A key one was the right to form free trade unions. Led by an electrician, Lech Walsea, they won recognition for their independent union, Solidarity; and fought a court action to have a reference to the leading role of the Communist Party removed from its statues.
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  • Location: POLAND GDANSK DANZIG
  • Reuters ID: LDL00115DC54N
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