The formula for a successful general committee is simple, although not so easy to implement. The formula consists of just three words: "Serve the membership."

General Chairperson Paul Tibbit (GO 393) is among those who have read, marked and inwardly digested the formula -- and successfully put it into practice. Tibbit also is alternate International vice president- West.

Dear Sen. Obama:

The 125,000 active and retired members of the United Transportation Union are looking to you and your administration to restore what is slowly and relentlessly being taken from them with the help of an anti-labor bias in Washington -- their dignity.

UTU members operate the trains and drive and repair the buses that keep our factories and markets supplied and move Americans between home and work and from city to city.