You never heard of Poland's Lech Walesa?
Lech Walesa, an electrician, became an international symbol of worker power in 1980 when during the Lenin Shipyard strike in Gdansk, Poland he successfully rallied demoralised workers to continue to fight for reform. From there, his passion spread to factories across the nation and strikers everywhere began christening the new movement "Solidarity."
Yea, good counter example.