Lech Walesa31 August 1980
Workers have the right to strike & organise independent unions
Poland · Politics / Solidarity. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Workers have the right to strike & organise independent unions
16,000 strike for political freedom & lower food prices
Led by electrician Lech Walesa, the workers take control of the shipyard and demand labor reform and greater civil rights including the freedom of expression and religion, and the release of political prisoners
Solidarnosc, the independent trade union that emerged from the Lenin Shipyard strike, becomes a labor movement representing workers led by chairman Walesa
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