Solidarity
With the signing of the Gdańsk Agreement on August 31, delegates from MKS – representing 3500 separate enterprises and 3 million workers, intellectuals and students – met in Gdańsk. The Inter-Enterprise Strike Committee, which had become a national federation of unions now officially became Poland’s first independent trade union since WWII: Solidarity (Solidarność). Some historians claim that within weeks Solidarity’s membership included almost 80 percent of Poland’s working population, while more conservative estimates claim membership peaked at 50 percent.
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“It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I know its affinity and solidarity with the other.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)