Mick Rix

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mick Rix
Occupation	Trade Unionist
Date Of Birth	Apr 11, 1963(1963-04-11)
Age	61
Birthplace	Barnsley
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aries

Mick Rix Biography

Mick Rix is one of the most popular and richest Trade Unionist who was born on April 11, 1963 in Barnsley, United Kingdom. Mick Rix (born 11 April 1963 in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British trade unionist and politician.

There is a plaque and a tree outside Euston station which Rix planted to celebrate the memories of those killed in railway disasters. Rix founded the group Take Back the Track, which was successful in turning Railtrack into a not-for-profit publicly owned company in 2001. Rix’s defeat in the election for General Secretary of ASLEF by Shaun Brady, a relatively right wing candidate, came as a great surprise to the left wing of the trade union movement. It was widely claimed that those in New Labour and the railway companies had a hand in his defeat. The defeat led to a period of instability in ASLEF culminating in a brawl at a barbecue at the union’s London headquarters, which resulted in a number of senior officers being removed from their positions, including Brady.

Mick Rix Net Worth

Mick Rix is one of the richest Trade Unionist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mick Rix 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rix joined the Labour Party in February 1980. He created the left-wing FUWL group (Fed Up With Losing) in 1999 after a discussion with Kenny Cameron, Alan Sapper and Ken Gill. The group became more widely known in the public and media as the “awkward squad”, after journalist Kevin Maguire coined the term in an article in The Guardian in 2001, in which he also reported that Rix had recently rejoined Labour after a period in the Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party. Rix insisted that the FUWL group had not to ape the left of the old days but had to include a senior officer, senior lay member and a trusted staffer, so that the decisions made at FUWL meetings would go through the various networks of union internal structures. FUWL insisted that it was not the preserve of males, and included the very powerful TUC women’s network, along with the editor of the Morning Star. FUWL became a powerful block on the TUC. FUWL basically wrote the policy agenda and in 2001 it ended the right wing dominance at the TUC on policy, and in winning elections to the general council elections in a number of unions. FUWL worked with the Campaign Group of MPs on a whole host of projects.

Rix was responsible for creating the influential Justice for Colombia (JFC) group in late 2000, which helped raise awareness of the deaths and murders of trade unionists taking place in the country. When Rix formed this influential group within the British trade union movement, there were over 250 trade unionists being murdered in Colombia each year. By the time Rix had moved on, this figure had been cut to around 50 to 70 a year, with regular visits and fact finding missions to Colombia taking place by leading trade unionists, journalists, solicitors, politicians, and NGOs. Rix even met the Vice President, later President, Juan Manuel Santos, and berated him over the impunity involved in the murders. Nearly every trade union in the UK plays an active part in JFC.

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Mick Ranked on the list of most popular Trade Unionist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mick Rix celebrates birthday on April 11 of every year.