Background

KURON, Jacek was born on March 3, 1934 in Lvov.

Education

Warsaw University.

Career

Lecturer, Scientific Courses Society 1978-1989. Adviser to Solidarity Interfactory Founding Committee, Gdansk, then to National Understanding Commission, and National Commission, of Solidarity Trade Union 81. Interned 1981-1982, indicted on a charge of attempt of subverting a political system September 1982, released under amnesty August 1984.

Attached to Lech Walesa, Chair, of Solidarity Trade Union. Participant Round Table plenary debates. Deputy to Sejm (Pari.) 1989-1991.

Chairman Sejm Commission, for National and Ethnical Minorities, Deputy Chairman Civic Pari. Club; Minister of Labour and Social Policy September since 1989. Honorary degree (Emory University) 1990.

Works

• Other Work

  • Uwaga Zespdl 1961, Polityka i odpowiedzialnosc (Politics and Responsibility) 1984, Zlo, ktore ezynie (The Evil I Do) 1984, Zdobyc milczaca wickszosc (To gain the Silent Majority) 1988, Wiara i wina (Faith and Fault, autobiography) 1990.

Politics

unia Demokratyczna

Membership

Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) March-November 1953, 1956-1964. Chief Council of Polish Pathfinders’ Union 1956. Solidarity Industry Self-governing Trade Union, adviser to Solidarity Interfactory Founding Committee, Gdansk, then to National Understanding Commission, and National Commission, of Solidarity Trade Union 81.

Civic Committee attached to Lech Walesa, Chair, of Solidarity Trade Union. Group for political reforms February-April 1989.