BOWLING GREEN -- An automotive supplier that this year announced it was moving 200 jobs from Bowling Green to Kentucky and Mexico now plans to cut 47 more and send the work to Mexico, a spokesman for the workers' union said.

The Cooper-Standard Automotive employees who make window and door seal assemblies for the Ford Explorer were informed that their work was being sent to Mexico sometime between Thanksgiving and the end of the year, said Pat Gallagher, a spokesman for the United Steelworkers.

The job cuts are in addition to the loss of 200 jobs earlier this year when Cooper-Standard sent its hose manufacturing operations to Kentucky and Mexico.

And 200 more employees at the sealing plant who manufacture products for other automakers are unaffected so far, Mr. Gallagher said. "It's very disturbing, to say the least. We were told that [pricing pressure from] Ford forced them to move the work, but we haven't gotten confirmation."

Sharon Wenzl, a spokesman for Novi, Mich.-based Cooper-Standard, did not return calls seeking comment.

Todd Nissen, a spokesman for Ford Motor Co., said in a written statement, "As a policy, we don't publicly discuss the terms of our supplier contracts."

First Published October 26, 2011, 4:30 a.m.