SLOMR

SLOMR
Free Trade Union of the Working People of Romania
Sindicatul Liber al Oamenilor Muncii din România
Founded1979
Dissolved1979
HeadquartersBucharest, Romania
Location
Members
2,400
Key people
Ionel Cană, founder
Paul Goma
Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa
AffiliationsInternational Confederation of Free Trade Unions

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.

  1. ^ Ilieșu; ILO reports
  2. ^ Frunză, p.526; Popescu
  3. ^ Popescu