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PILMA

Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association

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Skilled labor and the pharmaceutical industry are coming together to create good-paying jobs and life-saving medicines

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Labor and Industry Facts

4.7

MILLION

Number of U.S. jobs supported by the pharmaceutical industry

$1.5

BILLION

Amount invested every year on training by construction trade unions

1900

Number of building trades training centers in the U.S.

$2.6

BILLION

Average amount spent to develop each drug

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DATA SHOWS HALF OF ALL SPENDING ON BRAND MEDICINES IS RETAINED BY MANUFACTURER

Last year, PILMA in collaboration with union health care and benefits expert Randy DeFrehn released a report titled “An Understanding and Implications of the Cost Drivers in the Drug Supply Chain.”

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen Tours IBEW Local 26

On Monday, March 26, 2018 Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen toured International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 26’s 30,000 square foot training facility in Lanham, Maryland.

THE BIOPHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND SKILLED UNION WORKERS WORK TOGETHER TO DISCOVER CURES

What is the connection between union apprentices and biopharmaceutical companies? Follow along with Pat, Tara and Kendall as they take you through Philadelphia’s Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Local 19 from the training center to the job site at Merck.

PILMA IN ACTION: COVID-19

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“The comprehensive skills and rigorous training that unionized craft workers develop in order to serve the highly specialized construction needs of our industry are critical to our mission of researching, developing and bringing to market the life-saving medicines and medical devices that save lives around our country and the world.”

Dean Paranicas

President, Healthcare Institute of New Jersey

“I commend the unions and companies in this important industry for finding a way to work together, and I am committed to doing what I can to support this partnership in ways that will help create jobs, save lives and boost the economy here in Washington.”

Hon. Derek Stanford

Washington State Representative

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