Tag: Solidarity Trade Union
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Lech Walesa, Founder of the Solidarity Trade Union, is Sworn in as Poland’s 1st Popularly Elected President. December 22, 1990.
Image: Lech Walesa in 1996. (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 22, 1990, Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity trade union, is sworn in as Poland’s 1st popularly elected president. Walesa was a labor activist who helped form and lead (1980-1990) communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity. He received the Nobel Prize…
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