Svein Fjellheim is a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

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He was educated as a sausage

Sausage

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 maker in 1965. From 1981 he worked as a trade union secretary in Stavanger

Stavanger

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, and from 1995 in Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

 county. He was a member of the national board of the Norwegian Union of Food, Beverage and Allied Workers from 1977 to 1993. He was involved in local politics as a member of Stavanger city council from 1975 to 1995, since 1979 as a member of the executive committee.

When the second cabinet Stoltenberg

Second cabinet Stoltenberg

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 assumed office following the 2005 election, he was appointed State Secretary

State Secretary (Norway)

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 in the Office of the Prime Minister

Norwegian Office of the Prime Minister

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He has been a member of the board of Rogalands Avis

Rogalands Avis

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(1976-1992), Kino1 Gruppen (1981-2005), Landsbanken (1993-2000), the Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Fund (1996-2004), Stavanger University College (2000-2003) and Fredskorpset

Fredskorpset

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(2004-2006).