The leader of the train drivers’ union will retire after three terms in office.
An election will be held later this year to appoint his successor .
Mick Whelan was first elected general secretary of Aslef in 2011.
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He has spent 41 years on the railway, and as an active trade unionist.
He began working in the rail industry as a guard, on British Rail’s Midland region, in 1984.
He joined Aslef when he became a freight train driver in 1988 and was elected Midlands regional organiser in 2000.
He was elected general secretary in 2011 and in 2016 became chairman of Tulo, now LabourUnions, which co-ordinates the activities of unions which affiliate to the Labour Party.
In September 2017, he was elected to Labour’s national executive.
He was heavily involved in the strikes by train drivers under the previous Conservative government, regularly appearing on picket lines.
