08.14.2005 03:47
Twenty-five years ago, on August 14, 1980
Workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk
(Danzig), Poland, went on strike when one of their own, a crane
operator named
Anna Walentinowicz, a labor agitator, was fired by the
authorities (link is to the BBC story at that time, and there
is a contemporary video clip of another news story at the
site).
The Polish words in white are 'It all began in Gdansk'
The English site of the Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity (NSZZ "Solidarnosc") is here. Commemorations are taking place in Poland and elsewhere of these events, including the August 31, 1980, agreement between the Government and the Inter-enterprise Strike Committee, and there is a listing here.
The Polish words in white are 'It all began in Gdansk'
The English site of the Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity (NSZZ "Solidarnosc") is here. Commemorations are taking place in Poland and elsewhere of these events, including the August 31, 1980, agreement between the Government and the Inter-enterprise Strike Committee, and there is a listing here.