{"id":141768,"date":"2025-04-17T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141768"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:32:31","slug":"chaos-from-tariffs-forces-mack-trucks-to-lay-off-up-to-350-workers-in-macungie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141768","title":{"rendered":"Chaos from tariffs forces Mack Trucks to lay off up to 350 workers in Macungie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Josh Siegel<br \/>\nD-Lehigh<b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.repsiegel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.RepSiegel.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1745028712242000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0LTfKXuyAzKhBUjli85iM_\">www.RepSiegel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Communities pay the price as Trump administration&#8217;s reckless trade policy hurts workers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALLENTOWN, April 17 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>State Rep. Josh Siegel released the following statement after the announcement that Mack Trucks is laying off between 250 and 350 workers at its Macungie facility, a devastating blow to Lehigh Valley workers and a clear signal of the dangerous economic instability being fueled by the Trump administration\u2019s chaotic tariff policies:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, American workers are being sacrificed at the altar of political theater. The tariffs \u2014 erratic, broad and poorly targeted \u2014 are crushing core U.S. industries like trucking and manufacturing. Supply chains are snarled, costs are soaring, and confidence among employers is collapsing. Communities like the Lehigh Valley, built on generations of hard work and industrial pride, are now being asked to carry the burden of this administration\u2019s incompetence. These are good-paying union jobs that our community cannot afford to lose,\u201d said Siegel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese 350 workers are not just numbers \u2014 they are parents, neighbors, veterans and skilled tradespeople who built America\u2019s backbone. And they deserve better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for real leadership. I\u2019m calling on Ryan Mackenzie who joined Mack UAW workers on strike during his congressional campaign and who has made a career of pretending to stand for workers despite consistently voting against them, to act \u2014 now. It\u2019s urgent that Rep. Mackenzie along with Senators Fetterman and McCormack take back Congress\u2019s constitutional authority on trade and end this economic sabotage before more livelihoods are lost. Standing by silently while working families suffer is unacceptable; they must protect Lehigh Valley workers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Josh Siegel D-Lehigh www.RepSiegel.com Communities pay the price as Trump administration&#8217;s reckless trade policy hurts workers ALLENTOWN, April 17 \u2013\u00a0State Rep. Josh Siegel released the following statement after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chaos from tariffs forces Mack Trucks to lay off up to 350 workers in Macungie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116616,"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-141768","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\/03\/State-Rep-Josh-Siegel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141768"}],"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=141768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}