After weeks of strikes at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Shipyard" id="mwATM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lenin Shipyard">Lenin Shipyard</a> in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" id="mwATQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity</a> is established.