Lear to lay off 121 workers
BY ANDREA HOLECEK
holecek@nwitimes.com
219.933.3316 | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | 14 comment(s)
HAMMOND | Lear Corp. will layoff 121 workers at its Hammond plant effective Nov. 3, a notice the company filed with the state indicates.
The Lear plant at 1401 E. 165th St. produces and supplies seats for the vehicles built at the Ford Chicago assembly plant in the nearby Chicago neighborhood of Hegewisch. The plant produces the Ford Taurus, Taurus X, Mercury Sable and Lincoln MKS.
Lear's announced layoffs were triggered by Ford's recent decision to cut one of the auto assembly plant's two production shifts in November in order to balance production with demand. The Ford shift reduction will result in layoffs for the plant's 600 temporary part-time workers and possibly additional hourly and salaried employees.
Lear's hourly workers are members of United Auto Workers Local 2335. Neither Lear nor Local 2335 President Jaime Luna could be reached for comment Tuesday.
The Lear plant, which has about 245 employees, uses just-in-time manufacturing techniques and delivers its products on a just-in-time basis. It typically takes 30 minutes from the time a seat is produced at the Hammond plant for it to be delivered to the nearby Ford facility at the intersection of Torrence Avenue and 126th Street, a Lear spokeswoman has said.
"If the customer goes to one shift, our (Hammond) plant will," she said in early March when Ford originally announced it would reduce the assembly plant's production to one shift.
holecek@nwitimes.com
219.933.3316 | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | 14 comment(s)
HAMMOND | Lear Corp. will layoff 121 workers at its Hammond plant effective Nov. 3, a notice the company filed with the state indicates.
The Lear plant at 1401 E. 165th St. produces and supplies seats for the vehicles built at the Ford Chicago assembly plant in the nearby Chicago neighborhood of Hegewisch. The plant produces the Ford Taurus, Taurus X, Mercury Sable and Lincoln MKS.
Lear's announced layoffs were triggered by Ford's recent decision to cut one of the auto assembly plant's two production shifts in November in order to balance production with demand. The Ford shift reduction will result in layoffs for the plant's 600 temporary part-time workers and possibly additional hourly and salaried employees.
Lear's hourly workers are members of United Auto Workers Local 2335. Neither Lear nor Local 2335 President Jaime Luna could be reached for comment Tuesday.
The Lear plant, which has about 245 employees, uses just-in-time manufacturing techniques and delivers its products on a just-in-time basis. It typically takes 30 minutes from the time a seat is produced at the Hammond plant for it to be delivered to the nearby Ford facility at the intersection of Torrence Avenue and 126th Street, a Lear spokeswoman has said.
"If the customer goes to one shift, our (Hammond) plant will," she said in early March when Ford originally announced it would reduce the assembly plant's production to one shift.
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