[ noun ] an industrial city and river port in northern Poland <noun.location>
Strikes by bus drivers in Bydgoszcz and factory workers in Stalowa Wola also were settled with promises of pay raises of at least 50 percent.
The strikes started with a wildcat transport stoppage organized by members of Poland's official Communist-led trade unions in the central city of Bydgoszcz.
In the city of Bydgoszcz, transit crews won a 60% wage increase Monday after a 12-hour strike.
That is out of the question," Jaruzelski said in the speech to army officers in the northwest city of Bydgoszcz, according to the official PAP news agency.
"We can't catch up with prices; the government must control them," said a poster in Bydgoszcz, and another said, "High prices plus soup kitchens equals ever-growing poverty," PAP reported.
They didn't declare a strike and it has no organized form." Second-shift workers also refused to begin work at 2 p.m., said a spokeswoman at Bydgoszcz transit headquarters.
Strikes began Monday with bus and streetcar drivers at Bydgoszcz in the west.