In April, Brooks Brothers publicly announced plans to close its 5th Avenue store at the end of this year.

Local 340A members at three Sol's Health and Beauty Aids drugstores in the Bronx have won a new three year contract with improvements in all the following areas: holidays, sick days, and wages.

Members of New Jersey's Jobs with Justice have come out in support of Heldrich workers as they struggle to organize their union. Jobs with Justice is an organization that builds coalitions of labor, religious, student and community organizations that come together to fight for economic and social justice: http://www.jwj.org/about.html

The Shop Stewards’ Workshop on May 3rd was a great success!

On Friday, March 28th, 2008, a strong group of leaders at the Heldrich Center in New Brunswick delivered a petition to their company's Vice President, demanding respect for their right to organize a union and an end to increased surveillance and intimidation targeted towards union activists.