Free Trade Union of the Working People of Romania | |
Sindicatul Liber al Oamenilor Muncii din România | |
Founded | 1979 |
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Dissolved | 1979 |
Headquarters | Bucharest, Romania |
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Members | 2,400 |
Key people | Ionel Cană, founder Paul Goma Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa |
Affiliations | International Confederation of Free Trade Unions |
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Socialist Republic of Romania |
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SLOMR (Romanian language acronym for Sindicatul Liber al Oamenilor Muncii din România - Free Trade Union of the Working People of Romania) was a Romanian free trade union founded, without prior preparation, in February 1979, as a means to oppose the control exercised by the ruling Communist Party during the country's communist period.[1] Initiated along the same lines as Solidarity, created one year later in the People's Republic of Poland,[2] it grew to about 2,400 adherents within four weeks, and was dismantled by the authorities of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime, coordinated by the Securitate,[3] over the next three months.