“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
“North America’s Building Trades Unions invest upward of $1 billion a year in training and developing the safest, most highly trained and productive workers found anywhere in the world.”
– Sean McGarvey, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU)
“For the assignments they’re given – and the biopharmaceutical industry is a good illustration – they’ve got to be the best. It isn’t just so that they produce a good product, it’s so that what comes at the end of the laboratory work and the production work does the thing it’s supposed to do – keep America healthy and safe.”
– US Senator Dick Durbin
“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
“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