TOLEDO, Ohio — One week into a workers' strike against Toledo-based Libbey Glass, the city's U.S. representative is calling on the company and the unions that represent the employees to resume contract negotiations.

Marcy Kaptur (D-Toledo) sent a letter on Thursday to Libbey Glass' senior vice president of operations, Pablo Villareal, to share her concerns with the company's alleged bad-faith bargaining and the strike's impact on "an important economic driver in our community."

Kaptur, who represents a swath of northwest Ohio as the state's ninth congressional district, said she is a "strong supporter of collective bargaining" in her letter and hopes reinvigorated negotiations between the glassmaker and the unions — the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and th

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