The Falkland Island General Employees Union is a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ...

representing workers in the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

. Originally founded in 1943 as the Falkland Islands Labour Federation, the union mostly represents workers in the

agriculture sector The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portion of the economy in d ...

. The Falkland Islands Weekly News in 1944 carried an article on the union: A number of former leaders and members of the FIGEU have been elected to the Island's General Assembly: * Terrence S. Betts 1987 by-election for Stanley (constituency). *

Gavin Short Gavin Phillip Short (born 1962) is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency from 2009 until 2017. He was previously a Member of the Legislative Council from 1989–1993. Shor ...

elected 1989; 2009 & 2013 for Stanley (constituency).
Frederick John Cheek
elected 1964 for Stanley (constituency).
Richard Victor Goss
elected 1960; 1964 & 1968 for Stanley (constituency). Penguin News

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