On the fourth day of July (Gengshen years), August 14, 1980, the Polish workers strike.




17000 workers occupied Intrinsic Lenin Shipyard
Since 1976, Poland's economic situation worsening, in July 1980, the government decided to raise the price of meat and other foods bargaining approach aroused the discontent of the workers, the workers of Lublin was first initiated by the strike, followed by Warsaw, Silesia and Lodz. The government promised to increase wages, the situation has eased. August 14, Georgia Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot and Szczecin workers once again set off a strike developed into a nationwide workers' strike. During the strike, workers around the establishment of the strike committee, which affect the strike committee of the biggest is led by Lech Walesa, the triple city (Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot). Government with the strike committee reached an agreement: the Government acknowledges that the new trade unions - Solidarity against the leadership of the party and the government of independent trade unions to ensure the personal safety of the right to strike and the strikers, to respect the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, the press, and freedom of the press . The striking workers also acknowledged the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party in the country, this large-scale workers' strike led to the downfall of the first secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Gierek, Poland continue into financial and political crisis.
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trade union chairman of the National Committee