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Big Labor wants Wal-Mart unionized. It has formed 2 attack groups to bring Wal-Mart to its knees. Labor could add $300 million in new dues each year, if its attack plan were successful. Big

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

Labor also would not have to expend as much energy keeping Wal-Mart out of cities. Union shops in big cities have very little competition from non union shops. Big Labor intends to keep it tha

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

way.

Wal-Mart saves American households an average of $2,300 a year through lower prices. Who benefits the most from such a truly meaningful amount? Those who need to benefit the most, low

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

r income families. In 2004, those household savings added up to a total savings of $263 billion, according to the economic consulting firm Global Insight.

Compare that to the $33 billion tha

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

families receive from the federal food stamp program, which of course has to take that $33 billion from other hard working families, to redistribute to the recipients. This entire get-Wal-Ma

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

t campaign is a political operation led and funded by organized labor.

The two attack groups the unions have funded are:

1. Wal-Mart Watch

2. Wake Up Wal-Mart

The Service Emp

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

oyees International Union (SEIU), created Wal-Mart Watch, but not directly. The (SEIU), one of the nation's most powerful unions, supported a 501(c)3 organization-FIVE STONES-giving FIVE STONE

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

$ 1 million dollars in 2004 to get Wal-Mart Watch underway. In 2005, the (SEIU) forked over another $2.7 million to FIVE STONES.

You've probably heard of another famous 501(3)c-Move-On.Org

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

headed by George Soros. So the trail goes SEIU to Five Stones to Wal-Mart Watch.

Andy Stern who is the SEIU President is also the Wal-Mart Watch chairman.

The Second attack group is

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

Wake Up Wal-Mart. This group is very cozy with the Democratic Party. Its union funded campaign director is Paul Blank, who was the political director of Howard Dean's failed Presiden

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ial campaign.

Wake Up Wal-Mart gets major support from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). The (UFCW), was the founder of Wake Up Wal-Mart, pays campaign director Pau

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

Blank's $135,000 annual salary, and is the headquarters of the group.

A great irony of all this is that Wal-Mart, which pays an average of $10 an hour, pays a higher wage than many of these

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

nions with whom it competes. Typically when Wal-Mart opens a new store, thousands apply for the several hundred new jobs it creates. Why not. Entry level jobs start at $7 and go to $12 an hou

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

, to go along with serious career potential.

For all the attacks on Wal-Mart’s health care policy, a spokesperson for the company said " that more than half its 1.3 million U.S. employees ar

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

full time, enjoying higher coverage rates, and that 75 percent of all workers have some coverage through the company, the government or spouses' plans." Washington Post columnist Robert Samu

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

lson reminds us

"America's political culture routinely demands at least one hideous corporate villain. In recent decades that role has fallen to General Motors, IBM, Exxon Mobil and Microsoft

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

now Wal-Mart has assumed the mantle. " As General Motors and Ford are now discovering, companies that pay above-market labor costs ultimately shrink and destroy jobs.

For that very reason,

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

hicago Mayor Richard Daley, earlier this year, vetoed an attempt by the Chicago City Council to mandate higher labor costs on the large retailer. In his veto message, Mayor Daley, a pro-unio

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

Democrat, declared that the wage law would "drive jobs and businesses from our city, penalizing neighborhoods that need additional economic activity the most."

Democrats and Unions are power

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ul allies. Each makes constant claims to be helping "working families" and "middle class families."

What a pity that even in the Information Age, words and rhetoric, can still deceive so many

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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