At least 10 times a year, the IWW has to spend a lot of money on paper, ink, staples, copy production, mailing labels, and postage. GHQ has to spend hours producing, printing, copying, collating, and mailing the IWW's General Organizing Bulletin. While the GOB is a crucial and required set of monthly reports due to the membership by its administration, it costs the union a lot of money and contributes to our operating deficit. It also creates an enormous workload at GHQ.

To help the IWW reduce its operating deficit, we have created an email list so that members can receive their GOB electronically instead of through the mail. Switching to an email-delivered General Organizing Bulletin will save the union money and time and help us organize more effectively.

Many of you are concerned about helping the IWW save money and reducing the enormous workload borne by our general administration.

Some of you may not read your GOB regularly, and it's even likely that a good number of members never read their GOB. While it's in members' best interest to read their official union reports, it's understandable that some members choose not to read their GOB. If you are one of these members, please, switch to an E-GOB and subscribe to the GOB email list. That way you can read your GOB if you wish and save paper as well. It will also be delivered to you much more quickly.

To receive an Electronic GOB instead, please subscribe to the Electronic GOB email list:

http://lists.iww.org/listinfo/gob-list

To join this list you must:

• (1) Be a member of the IWW in good standing; and
• (2) Provide your name, x-number, and a phone number where you can be reached. (You will probably get a follow-up email asking for the x-number in most cases, because the email list program only requires a name and email address. We apologize for the hectoring, but the x-number allows GHQ to quickly filter their lists).