Norwalk, CT July 31, 2008 -- JayStar Group President David Roger announced today that the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC has contracted with JayStar Group to prepare the Federation's 2008 LM-2 report to the United States Department of Labor. JayStar Group is recognized as the premier experts in LM-2 compliance issues and processes.

In his announcement, Mr. Roger stated:

"We are extremely honored to be entrusted with the AFL-CIO's LM-2 preparation and are very pleased to be adding this account to our growing customer base for this service."

JayStar Group has been intimately involved with the LM-2 regulations and compliance requirements and the major changes that were effected in recent years. Their expertise in this area has been used to assist some 200 unions of every size from the smallest qualifying local to Internationals in organizations such as:

• International Union of Operating Engineers
• Communication Workers of America
• International Longshoremen's Association
• UNITE HERE!
• AFSCME
• SEIU

JayStar Group has a complete range of products and services to help labor organizations meet many of their "back office" challenges. Services and products range from accounting system installation and training for Microsoft Dynamics GP, QuickBooks, and Peachtree, customizations for LM-2 reporting, JayStar EZ-LM2 ® Toolkits, JayStar ORION ® membership and dues management, JayStar Nebula ® health and welfare management. From initial consulting to improved membership support to full regulatory compliance, JayStar Group is truly "Labor's Information Solution."
        
JayStar Group is a Microsoft Certified Partner and an Intuit Affiliate specializing in accounting systems and financial information systems that are most appropriate for the customer's needs.

For more information and to see the full range of our compliance products and services, please visit JayStar group's website at www.jaystargroup.com.

About the AFL-CIO
As stated on its website, "The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions.

The AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and taxi drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and plumbers--and more."

For more information, visit www.aflcio.org.