How Poland's Solidarity won freedom of association.

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: September 1, 1989| Author: Senser, Robert A. | Copyright information

How Poland's Solidarity won freedom of association

Through 9 years of dramatic struggle, Solidarity and its supporters held firmly to no compromise on the basic right to form independent and self-governing unions

In the summer of 1980, a trade union strike committee, initially representing workers in some 20 state-run enterprises in the Gdansk region on Poland's Baltic coast, debated for days the formulation of a series of demands--most of them beyond the province...

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