Word: trade-union
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...upon row of Deputies lifted their right hands high. By an overwhelming vote, they decreed the death of Solidarity, the 9 million-member independent union federation that for 16 months had shaken the entire Soviet bloc with its bold cry for freedom. That vote, approving a sweeping new trade-union law, finished the job that General Wojciech Jaruzelski had begun when he imposed martial law and suspended Solidarity last December...
...conceded that there were no links between the terrorists and any groups in Poland. Despite that admission, the fact was that the Bern terrorists had given the military government a boost, rather than the opposite. Throughout the siege, the Jaruzelski regime was able to inveigh even more against the trade-union movement that the Communist leadership in Poland is striving to crush...
...addition to demanding the release of Lech Walesa, the leader of the suspended Solidarity labor union, Poland's Primate outlined three conditions for "national reconciliation": the revival of free trade-union activity, the release of some 600 Poles who remain in detention camps and amnesty for the estimated 2,000 people convicted of violations of martial law and a firm date for a visit by Pope John Paul II to his native land...
Equally disappointing, particularly to the 10 million Poles who were members of Solidarity before the independent trade union was suspended last year, was Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski's address to the Sejm. Rakowski claimed that a majority of the workers who had been in contact with the government favored a new structure in which unions would be organized by industries rather than by regions. Solidarity supporters disputed Rakowski's statement, seeing it as an attempt to weaken the independent trade-union movement. Said a 30-year-old skilled worker from Warsaw: "Maybe [Communist] Party members want such unions...
...program that has been adopted by Mitterrand in France. Said Chevalier: "The French government thinks that its people have a right to work even if we have to pay a price for that in competitive terms in world trade." One benefit, according to Chevalier, is that the Socialists now can count on labor's support. He claimed that restive trade-union leaders in West Germany are demanding that Bonn follow the French example and create 1 million new jobs. The Frenchman argued that a certain amount of government intervention is necessary to attain long-term goals, such...