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Solidarity, a Polish trade union, was founded as the first independent labor union in an Eastern Bloc country.
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Solidarity (Polish trade union)
20th-century Polish trade union
Solidarity, full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity", is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the first independent trade union in a Warsaw Pact country to be recognised by the state.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Trade union
Organisation of workers with common goals
A trade union or labor union, often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
History of Solidarity
History of the Polish trade union
Solidarity, a Polish non-governmental trade union, was founded on August 14, 1980, at the Lenin Shipyards by Lech Wałęsa and others. In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in an Eastern Bloc country. Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Eastern Bloc
Former group of communist states aligned with the Soviet Union during the Cold War
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, the Workers Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was an unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)