PILMA released the following statement rejecting the ‘profit-over-patients’ philosophy of hedge-fund, acquisition-only creations and joins the research-based biopharmaceutical industry and others in condemning their practices. Click here to download the statement. PILMA stands with labor and industry trustees to condemn ‘profits-over-patients’ practices of hedge-fund, acquisition-only companies. For over ten years, the Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association has […]
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Governor Gina M. Raimondo Tours UA Local 51 East Providence Facility
On September 17, 2015 Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo toured the United Association’s Local 51 training center located in East Providence. The event, hosted by the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, UA Local 51 and PILMA, highlighted the rigorous apprenticeship programs that prepare members to build and retrofit biopharmaceutical facilities. To learn more about the event click […]
MSNBC Video: Apprenticeships Offer Debt-Free Job Training
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 […]