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.” PILMA combined DeFrehn’s findings with data from a new report by Berkeley Research Group to extrapolate on the original report and provide insight into which entities in the supply chain are receiving an increasing share of revenue from prescription medicines.
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PILMA Chairman Issues Statement on Legislative Proposals that would Harm Innovation and Jobs
On January 16, 2019, Eric Dean, General President of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers and Chairman of PILMA issued the following statement on legislative proposals that would negatively impact innovation and jobs. View the statement in PDF. The biopharmaceutical industry supports more than 4.7 million American jobs. Significant investment in capital […]
PILMA Statement on HHS Speech and its Impact on Innovation and Union Jobs
On October 25, 2018, PILMA released the following statement in response to President Trump’s speech at the Department of Health and Human Services. The statement follows a previously adopted PILMA Resolution on Price Controls. View the statement in PDF. The labor unions and biopharmaceutical companies of the Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association (PILMA) have a longstanding […]
PILMA Warns that Changes to the Medicare Part D “Donut Hole” would have Unintended Consequences
On August 17, 2018, PILMA Chairman and Ironworkers General President Eric Dean sent the following letter to House and Senate leadership advocating for the repeal of a provision in the Bipartisan Budget Act that would, “threaten the viability of the [biopharmaceutical] industry to invest in new treatments and cures and decimate the competitive nature that is […]
LillyPad: What Does IP Have to Do With Union Construction Jobs?
The following post appeared on LillyPad. By: Eric Dean, General President of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers and Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association (PILMA). At the intersection between the biopharmaceutical industry and North America’s Building Trades Unions is thePharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association, better known as PILMA. As Chairman […]
Statement by SMART General President Joseph Sellers On President Trump’s Drug Pricing Speech
Download the statement here. WASHINGTON (May 23, 2018) – Joseph Sellers, General President of SMART, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, released the following statement in response to President Trump’s speech on drug prices: “We commend the Trump Administration for the attention on this critical issue, particularly the much-needed focus […]