Polish Steelworkers on Strike
Thousands of steelworkers near the southern city of Krakow went on strike today to demand higher wages, a day after transit workers in two other cities won a 63% pay increase in their strike, dissident sources said.
A government spokesman confirmed the “protest over the wage increases” was under way in the plant, but he estimated the number of strikers at 900 workers. Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed Solidarity union, predicted a wave of strikes would follow the successful protests Monday by bus and tram drivers in the northern cities of Bydgoszcz and Inowroclaw.
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