August Agreement
The August Accords were agreements concluded between the strike committees and the government of the People's Republic of Poland in the summer of 1980. The term Gdańsk Agreement is also often used, it is the agreement between the Gdańsk Strike Committee and representatives of the Polish government at the time. It is the most widely noticed agreement and is one of a series of agreements signed in late August and early September 1980 that ended the August strikes in Poland . These were the first agreements in which a communist government legalized the opposition . These agreements gained constitutional status in Poland.
The agreements
- On August 30, 1980, the agreement was signed in Stettin by Marian Jurczyk and Kazimierz Barcikowski as government representatives.
- On August 31, 1980, the agreement between the Gdańsk inter-company strike committee of Lech Wałęsa and the then Vice-Prime Minister Mieczysław Jagielski was signed at the Lenin shipyard .
- On September 3, 1980, the agreement in Jastrzębie-Zdrój was signed by Jarosław Sienkiewicz and Aleksander Kopeć as government representatives.
- On September 11th, the agreement was signed in Huta Katowice in Dąbrowa Górnicza by Zbigniew Kupisiewicz and Franciszek Kaim as government representatives.
21 Demands of the inter-company strike committee
The agreement consisted of 21 points. The formation of independent trade unions was agreed, from which Solidarność emerged. The following were also decided: the erection of a memorial to the victims of the 1970 uprising , wage increases, a better supply of food, the publication of the Helsinki Final Act , no reprisals against the participants in the strikes, the abolition of censorship and the publication of the agreement in the Media. The Gdansk Agreement is part of the world document heritage .
The agreements that were signed in Szczecin and Jastrzębie-Zdrój were for the most part identical to the Gdańsk one, but also contained some deviations. In the Szczecin Agreement, for example, there is only talk of self-governing trade unions, in contrast to the Gdansk Agreement, which speaks of independent, independent trade unions. The main difference between the Gdańsk Agreement and the Jastrzębie-Zdrój Agreement was that the miners had a 5-day week, the abolition of the 4-shift system and a reduction in the retirement age.
literature
- Gerd Kirwanek: Poland, solidarity as hope. Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-280-01292-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Germany and Europa.de (German, accessed 17 May 2012)
- ↑ a b c Gerd Kriwanek: Poland Solidarity as Hope 1981, pp. 94–96.
- ↑ a b Wikisource (Polish, accessed January 28, 2012)
- ↑ a b c The Soviet Poland policy in the early 1980s and the imposition of martial law in the People's Republic of Poland. ISBN 3-643-10771-4 , p. 175.
- ↑ The Propagated Revolution. on: spiegel.online (accessed on January 28, 2012)
- ↑ Wikisource (Polish, accessed January 28, 2012)
- ↑ Gazeta.Wiadomości.pl from August 30, 2010 (Polish, accessed on September 27, 2012) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 21 Demands . Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
- ↑ Twenty-One Demands, Gdañsk, August 1980. The birth of the SOLIDARITY trades union - a massive social movement | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
