Question

When and why did the workers of Lenin shipyard in the city of Gdansk start a strike?

Answer 1

Hint: The Gdansk Agreement is a direct result of the strike in Gdansk, Poland. Workers on the Baltic Sea coast went on strike in August 1980 to support the 21 demands of MKS, which eventually led to unity.

Complete step by step answer:
1. On 14 August 1980 workers at the Lenin Shipyard in the state city of Gdansk went on strike in protest against the Poland communist government. The government in Poland was supported and controlled by the government of the Soviet Union (USSR), a large and powerful communist state.
2. The shipyard was owned by the government. In fact, all major factories and property in Poland were owned by the government. Their strike began with a demand that the crane operator, a worker, be unfairly fired.
3. fueled by the massive injection of Western credit, Poland’s economic growth rate was the highest in the world in the first half of the 1970s, but most of the borrowed capital was wasted, and the centrally planned economy was unable to effectively use new resources. The growing debt burden became unsustainable in the late 1970s, and by 1979 economic growth had become negative.

Note: The 21 MKS demands were a list of applications made on 17 August 1980 by the Interfactory Strike Committee (Miedzyzakladowy Komitet Strajkowy, MKS) in Poland. Solidarity is a trade union formed from August to September 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. As a result, it is the first state-recognized independent union in the Warsaw Pact state.