S.Res. 198 · 109th Congress

A resolution commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1980 worker's strike in Poland and the birth of the Solidarity Trade Union, the first free and independent trade union established in the Soviet-dominated countries of Europe.

Stage
Passed chamber resolution
Introduced
2005-07-18
Latest action
2005-07-27 · Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.

Summary

Declares August 31, 2005, to be Solidarity Day in the United States to recognize the 25th anniversary of the establishment in Poland of the Solidarity Trade Union.

Honors the people of Poland who risked their lives to restore liberty in Poland and to return Poland to the democratic community of nations.

Calls on the people of the United States to remember the struggle and sacrifice of the people of Poland and that the results of that struggle contributed to the fall of communism and the ultimate end of the Cold War.