PILMA – IUOE LOCAL 150 FACILITY TOUR

IUOE Local 150 hosted a facility tour to highlight its long-standing partnership with the biopharmaceutical industry and skilled union labor’s critical role in building and supporting life sciences infrastructure. For years, Local 150 has worked alongside pharmaceutical companies to construct the laboratories, manufacturing plants, and corporate campuses where cutting-edge medical innovation happens. The tour showcased […]

Mental Health Lunch and Learn with UA Local 9

PILMA partnered with UA Local 9 to host a “Lunch & Learn” event focused on mental health. In attendance were local union business managers and staff from the Ironworkers, UA, IBEW, IUOE, as well as representatives from Otsuka, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). The event produced insightful and vulnerable conversations among the […]

Most-Favored-Nation Drug Pricing: A Threat to American Workers and Innovation

Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) foreign reference pricing is the wrong approach to lowering drug  costs. It will hurt patients, endanger good-paying union jobs, and hand the strategic advantage  to China—precisely when manufacturing reshoring momentum is building across the country.  Devastating Consequences for American Workers The U.S. biopharmaceutical industry supports nearly 5 million jobs nationwide and contributes moreto […]