Sean McGarvey, President of North America’s Building Trades Unions, highlights in a San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece how apprenticeship programs help individuals learn trades. He joins to explain how the programs work and how they are “a much more cost-effective way of acquiring jobs skills than a traditional college degree. Click here to view the […]
NABTU Convention Focuses on Labor and Industry Partnerships
The opening video of the 2015 North America’s Building Construction Trades Convention emphasized how the building trades have increasingly formed strong relationships with the companies that employ them. “We’re not just engaging with our contractors, who historically have been our salespeople for us, we’re engaging directly with whole industries and individual companies and talking about our […]
NJ Organized Labor and the Life Sciences Breakfast
On July 9, PILMA along with the HeathCare Institute of New Jersey and We Work for Health New Jersey hosted the breakfast briefing, “Organized Labor and the Life Sciences: A New Jersey Partnership.” The event was held at the Cannon House Office Building and featured remarks from Hon. Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1), Hon. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ-3), […]
Catalyst Blog: Biopharmaceutical Innovation Benefits Many Sectors of Industry
A new video from PhRMA’s “From Hopes to Cures” highlights how workers at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 facility in Philadelphia design and construct world class facilities that provide space for medicine development. In the words of one apprentice, “Sheet metal workers need biopharmaceutical companies, just like biopharmaceutical companies need sheet metal workers.” Click […]
PILMA Honors President Wise
At PILMA’s May 27th Trustee Meeting, the trustees unanimously approved a resolution honoring President Walter Wise for his outstanding leadership and thoughtful engagement while serving as Chairman of PILMA. Wise will retire as President of the Iron Workers International on July 1, 2015 and subsequently will step down from his chairmanship. On behalf of all the PILMA trustees, […]
SMART Highlights PILMA DGA Event
SMART Members’ Journal March/April 2015 edition highlighted the December 2014 PILMA event at the Democratic Governors Association’s conference in Beverly Hills, California which Local Union 105 attended. “Following each new drug trial, research facilities must be wiped clean; entire systems must be changed, surfaces must be sterilized, and other equipment must be replaced. This requires highly skilled, reliable […]