{"id":123535,"date":"2023-10-10T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123535"},"modified":"2023-10-10T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:21:50","slug":"mackenzie-issues-statement-on-uaw-strike-at-mack-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123535","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Issues Statement on UAW Strike at Mack Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) today issued the following statement regarding the strike by United Auto Workers (UAW) members at the Mack Trucks plant in Lower Macungie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMack Trucks has a great tradition in the Lehigh Valley. I am proud they operate in the district I represent, and I was glad to see the investment they made over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also respect the hard-working Mack Trucks employees and the members of the UAW \u2013 some of whom are part of multi-generational Mack Trucks families. They are friends and important members of our community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Republican chair of the Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee, I am following this situation closely and I am hopeful both sides will be able to reach an agreement that is fair and mutually beneficial in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie met with union members on the picket line this afternoon and has reached out to the company to speak with them as well.<\/p>\n<p>Information and photo provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAndy Briggs<br \/>\nRepresentative Ryan Mackenzie<br \/>\n134th District<br \/>\nPennsylvania House of Representatives<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.repmackenzie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.repmackenzie.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER MACUNGIE TOWNSHIP\u00a0\u2013 Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) today issued the following statement regarding the strike by United Auto Workers (UAW) members at the Mack Trucks plant in Lower Macungie. \u201cMack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mackenzie Issues Statement on UAW Strike at Mack Trucks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Mack-truck-uaw-strike.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}