MARCH 22, 2025 — 800 EMPLOYEES TARGETED
The company has announced plans to lay off as many as 800 employees at three sites in response to market conditions, including tariffs.
A company statement shows Mack Trucks’ site in Macungie, Pennsylvania, and two Volvo Group facilities in Dublin, Virginia, and Hagerstown, Maryland, will be impacted.
APRIL 18, 2025 — UP TO 350 PENNSYLVANIA EMPLOYEES TARGETED; UP TO 100 IN MARYLAND
The company has announced it will lay off 250-350 workers at its Macungie, Pennsylvania, plant over a 90-day period.
According to a company spokesperson, “Heavy-duty truck orders continue to be negatively affected by market uncertainty about freight rates and demand, possible regulatory changes, and the impact of tariffs. We regret having to take this action, but we need to align production with reduced demand for our vehicles.
The company will also lay off 50 to 100 employees from its Hagerstown, Maryland, factory by May 2, 2025.
JULY 20, 2020 — 450 WHITE-COLLAR EMPLOYEES AT NORTH CAROLINA HEADQUARTERS
The company has announced 450 management, supervisorial, and support layoffs, mostly at its Greensboro, North Carolina headquarters.
It does not appear that the custs will be expanded to unionized production workers located in Pennsylvania in the near future.
Apparently, at the direction of their parent organization, The Volvo Group, and its planned reduction in force of 4,100 white-collar positions by year’s end.
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Greensboro, North Carolina-based Mack Trucks, a division of the Volvo Group and iconic manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks, engines, and transmissions, has announced that the company is planning to lay off 305 union employees at its Mack Lehigh Valley Assembly facility in Macungie, Pennsylvania, commencing on February 28, 2020. Voluntary layoffs may be offered to approximately 75 employees. The facility assembles all Mack trucks in North America.
In addition to the layoffs, Mack also is planning two down weeks in the first quarter 2020 and the second quarter 2020, a temporary layoff which will affect the majority of the plant and allow additional adjustments to inventory.
A company spokesperson noted, "We regret having to take this action, but we operate in a cyclical market, and after two years of extremely high volumes, we have to adapt to reduced market demand. The company expects the total North American truck market to be down nearly 30%, or about 100,000 trucks, in 2020.”
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