Word: rzeszow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cordoned off in the convention building as a rendezvous center. Notes with names, towns and concentration camps were tacked on bulletin boards. A computer sorted out names and dates to allow survivors to make identifications and connections. And people even wore personalized T shirts and signs like SUSSKIND FROM RZESZOW, POLAND in an effort to make contact with long-lost friends or relatives...
Though they later rejected the idea of an association, Rural Solidarity organizers said that they would continue to seek union status through legal channels rather than with strikes. But the next day in Rzeszow, where 300 peasants have occupied a government building for six weeks, the group's leaders suddenly reversed themselves. They now threatened not to plant crops this spring unless they are granted full union status. They also received an influential new endorsement: Poland's Roman Catholic hierarchy issued a bold statement declaring that the farmers' "right to free assembly as trade unions must...
Seeking to reassert his control over restive union locals, Walesa then embarked on a tour of some of the country's main trouble spots. He went first to the southern town of Rzeszow, near the Soviet border, where government representatives were meeting with some of the 300 farmers who have occupied a local government building for five weeks. Their key demand was legalization of Rural Solidarity, the independent farm union. Kania last week reiterated his opposition to the farm union as a potential instrument of "political struggle against the people's power." The supreme court is expected...
...firebrands at the local level pressed ahead with the wildcat strikes, many of them based on volatile political grievances, thus for the moment relegating Walesa to chasing his movement rather than leading it. Walesa traveled to the southern city of Rzeszow last week, where dissident farmers and workers had occupied a government building to dramatize their demands for Rural Solidarity. Hoping to reassert his authority, Walesa joined the strikers, vowing to remain on the site until the issues were settled...
Warsaw prevented an embarrassing standoff by reversing a previous refusal to negotiate and dispatching the Minister of Union Affairs, Stanislaw Ciosek, to Rzeszow. Ciosek informed the strikers the government was ready to talk. With that, Walesa and a handful of dissidents left for bargaining sessions in Warsaw. At week's end, after a 13-hour negotiating marathon, both sides announced agreement on the work week and access to the media. The government accepted the 40-hour week in principle but would only allow three free Saturdays a month this year; in addition, Solidarity would be granted a one-hour...