Pfizer Reps need Union to Protect Rights

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anonymous said:
1st only the clueless business person would stay at Pfizer. Looking at earnings past 1-2-5-10yrs & current state of affairs & pipeline loaded up in Oncology but nowhere else, it is simple business remedial 101

2nd YES Pfizer & ALL pharma need a Union to protect employees interest. When you go to work for a company, you consider ALL benefits and when those benefits are eliminated after you are employed it is part of the reason you decided to work at a company. Those rights need to be protected by ALL industry.
Granted the last 10yrs Pfizer has taken advantage of their employees more than others with eliminating the $1-2million Pension, decrease industry worse 401k match, & tripling employee monthly health care costs among others. But every company employees need a Union.
Until a Union is formed for the industry like Auto, Miners, Sanitation, Actors, Education, etc then 100% control rest w the Pharma companies & zero w employees.
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will never happen. Your examples are of employees who the companies actually need to do the work that produces products and necessary services.
Pharma doesn’t really need six figure employees to deliver samples and food.
 




anonymous said:
1st only the clueless business person would stay at Pfizer. Looking at earnings past 1-2-5-10yrs & current state of affairs & pipeline loaded up in Oncology but nowhere else, it is simple business remedial 101

2nd YES Pfizer & ALL pharma need a Union to protect employees interest. When you go to work for a company, you consider ALL benefits and when those benefits are eliminated after you are employed it is part of the reason you decided to work at a company. Those rights need to be protected by ALL industry.
Granted the last 10yrs Pfizer has taken advantage of their employees more than others with eliminating the $1-2million Pension, decrease industry worse 401k match, & tripling employee monthly health care costs among others. But every company employees need a Union.
Until a Union is formed for the industry like Auto, Miners, Sanitation, Actors, Education, etc then 100% control rest w the Pharma companies & zero w employees.
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Good thinking. Now, what will pharma reps claim are their skill sets?
 




Coming from a former Parke-Davis and then Pfizer retiree, I can see things haven't gotten any better than it was before I retired. It all started with Lipitor and Pfizer buying Warner-Lambert. They knew if they lost Lipitor their future was doomed. Then came along American Home Products with Wyeth and their portfolio. Now look, all those blockbuster drugs are gone and Pfizer has nothing. They just buy companies to get their products. When I worked for Parke-Davis I always admired Pfizer because of the blockbuster drugs they had to sell. What happened to their R & D department is a mystery. Both Pfizer and Wyeth great companies who took care of their representatives.
gThe end of our industry when companies decided we needed three or four people calling on the same office selling the same product. Doctors had no idea who sold what product. You became just another rep. You became a liability to them in terms of time spent seeing reps. Then came along the hospitals buying practices and changes began to happen. Doctors were paid based on the revenue they produced. Guess what, you don't make money seeing reps all day. And then offices started to stop taking samples because of record keeping. Samples were never meant to refill prescriptions for patients. As the number of doctors increased, samples were used to keep patients in their practice. They stay with the doc if he gives me my samples and I don't have to pay for my rxs at the drugstore.

The professionalism of our job has changed dramatically in terms of dress attire. I see this as a patient in the doctor's office i go to as a patient. All they are interested in is getting a signature to show they were there. This began to happen when companies placed more emphasis on numbers of signatures instead of seilng your product. I see reps coming into offices casually dressed looking more like a patient rather than representing the company you work for. I realize in some areas this is the norm. You're no long respected but instead just a rep who has samples and who needs a signature.
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I'm not saying this represents all of you out there, but it is happening. As far as benefits at some point you become a liabiity for a company esp when you make too much money. I've seen this in my career when Pfizer started cutting reps who did a great job in selling our products and had access to offices but yet were deemed not necessary,. You made too much money and could be replaced by someone who made lesss money. As far as retiree benefits, I was a dumb ass for two years until I realized I could go on the open market and find better supplemental insurance with no deductibles for a fraction of the costs that Pfizer wanted and this was using the same insurance company Pfizer used. I stopped their prescription program when the premium for my wife and I was over $600 a month. I now pay $ 28 each for my wife and I taking a generic drug. I'm sorry, if you sold that drug and made it was it was, it should charged appropriately. I do just find not taking the brand name Pfizer Lipitor. Generic Lipitor works just fine for me.

Please, don't be afraid to look at other companies. Pfizer is not the company it once was. Don't wait another day please.
 




Well said. I came from the Pharmacia side and was amazed at how much focus was on activity vs sales. You are correct that Pfizer was very good at buying companies to get blockbuster drugs. End of story
 




anonymous said:
Well said. I came from the Pharmacia side and was amazed at how much focus was on activity vs sales. You are correct that Pfizer was very good at buying companies to get blockbuster drugs. End of story
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Pfizer is based on marketing not science like Biotechs.
Pfizer grew w big acquisitions of companies with Blockbuster drugs but Pfizer fires all the great scientists of those companies when they buy them. The same scientists who developed the blockbusters, Pfizer doesn't retain them when they buyout companies.
As a result, they never have strong R&D or pipeline when those acquired blockbusters LOE
And YES the industry needs a Union especially to protect employees against companies like Pfizer who does take more advantage of employees w benefits than most companies.
 




Until Pfizer has leadership who has been n the field and has had to face those top offices who no longer see sales reps, they will have no clue what is faced everyday. Don't give us quotas of how many calls and how many signatures per day until they have walked in our shoes.
 




























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