Video: '14th August 1980: Lech Walesa leads Gda?sk shipyard workers on strike'

(Thursday, August 14, 1980, 6:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time) — Thousands of workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, staged a successful strike today to protest the Aug. 7, 1980, dismissal of Anna Walentynowicz, a crane operator and workers’ rights activist, in a job action resulted in creation of Solidarity, the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. Continue reading Thousands of shipyard workers in Poland strike for their rights 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 14 1980) →