Indiana Lear auto parts workers vote down UAW sellout contract second time

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2. Not feasable moving seat manufacturing overseas

These Lear facilities provide seats to a Ford plant in Chicago building the Explorer. Seats are built daily in the correct colors and trims and delivered in the correct sequence to match what is scheduled to be built that day. For that reason, they are usually built in close proximity to the vehicle assembly plants.


That being said, the auto supplier business is brutal and margins can be razor thin. The difference between winning a new contract for a part and losing it to a competitor often is determined by much less than a dollar a part