[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4730-4732]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-1616]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for
Worker Adjustment Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(19 U.S.C. 2273) the Department of Labor herein presents summaries of
determinations regarding eligibility to apply for trade adjustment
assistance for workers by (TA-W) number issued during the period of
January 10, 2011 through January 14, 2011.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for workers of
a primary firm and a certification issued regarding eligibility to
apply for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222(a) of the Act must be met.
I. Under Section 222(a)(2)(A), the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) The sales or production, or both, of such firm have decreased
absolutely; and
(3) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) Imports of articles or services like or directly competitive
with articles produced or services supplied by such firm have
increased;
(B) Imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
into which one or more component parts produced by such firm are
directly incorporated, have increased;
(C) Imports of articles directly incorporating one or more
component parts produced outside the United States that are like or
directly competitive with imports of articles incorporating one or more
component parts produced by such firm have increased;
(D) Imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
which are produced directly using services supplied by such firm, have
increased; and
(4) The increase in imports contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation and to the decline in the
sales or production of such firm; or
II. Section 222(a)(2)(B) all of the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) There has been a shift by the workers' firm to a foreign
country in the production of articles or supply of services like or
directly competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm;
(B) There has been an acquisition from a foreign country by the
workers' firm of articles/services that are like or directly
competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; and
(3) The shift/acquisition contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in public agencies and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(b) of the Act must
be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in the public
agency have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to
become totally or partially separated;
(2) The public agency has acquired from a foreign country services
like or directly competitive with services which are supplied by such
agency; and
(3) The acquisition of services contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected secondary workers of a firm and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(c) of the Act must
be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in the
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) The workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer to a
firm that employed a group of workers who received a certification of
eligibility under Section 222(a) of the Act, and such supply or
production is related to the article or service that was the basis for
such certification; and
(3) either--
(A) The workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts it
supplied to the firm described in paragraph (2) accounted for at least
20 percent of the production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) A loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm described
in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to the workers' separation or
threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in firms identified by the International Trade
Commission and a certification issued regarding eligibility to apply
for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222(f) of the Act must be met.
(1) The workers' firm is publicly identified by name by the
International Trade Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in--
(A) An affirmative determination of serious injury or threat
thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) An affirmative determination of market disruption or threat
thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
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(C) An affirmative final determination of material injury or threat
thereof under section 705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and 1673d(b)(1)(A));
(2) The petition is filed during the 1-year period beginning on the
date on which--
(A) a summary of the report submitted to the President by the
International Trade Commission under section 202(f)(1) with respect to
the affirmative determination described in paragraph (1)(A) is
published in the Federal Register under section 202(f)(3); or
(B) Notice of an affirmative determination described in
subparagraph (1) is published in the Federal Register; and
(3) The workers have become totally or partially separated from the
workers' firm within--
(A) The 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) Notwithstanding section 223(b)(1), the 1-year period preceding
the 1-year period described in paragraph (2).
Affirmative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance
The following certifications have been issued. The date following
the company name and location of each determination references the
impact date for all workers of such determination.
The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) of the Trade Act have been
met.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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73,490................ Owens-Illinois, Inc., Charlotte, MI...................... February 9, 2009.
North America
Division.
73,532................ Roto-Die Company, Inc. Meadows of Dan, VA................. February 16, 2009.
74,135................ Wood Products Days Creek, OR..................... May 19, 2009.
Northwest.
74,146................ Furniture Crafters of Collinsville, VA................... May 14, 2009.
Virginia, Inc.
74,208................ SB Acquisitions, LLC, Westbrook, ME...................... June 7, 2009.
dba Saunders Brothers.
74,243................ Wardwell Braiding Central Falls, RI.................. June 8, 2009.
Machine Company.
74,264................ Lazar Industries LLC, Siler City, NC..................... June 15, 2009.
East Division.
74,341................ Hearthstone Boone, NC.......................... March 14, 2010.
Enterprises Inc., DBA
Charleston Forge.
74,605................ Cambridge Tool & Die.. Cambridge, OH...................... September 7, 2009.
74,746................ Adrenaline Sporting Sherwood, OR....................... October 4, 2009.
Goods, LLC.
75,018................ Owens-Illinois, Inc., Bridgeton, NJ...................... December 19, 2009.
North America
Division; Bridgeton
Warehouse.
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The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(a)(2)(B) (shift in production or services) of the Trade Act
have been met.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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74,138................ Louis Baldinger & Astoria, NY........................ May 24, 2009.
Sons, Inc.
74,183................ SunGard Public Sector, Bethlehem, PA...................... March 5, 2009.
Sunguard Data
Systems; K-12
Education Division.
74,604................ HCP Packaging Inc., Hinsdale, NH....................... September 7, 2009.
USA, Leased Workers
of Masiello Temp
Agency.
74,831................ CompuCom Systems, Menlo Park, CA..................... November 2, 2009.
Inc., I-4 Division.
74,895................ Wellpoint, Inc., Indianapolis, IN................... November 15, 2009.
Enterprise Provider
Data Management Team;
Leased Workers Kelly
Services, etc.
74,958................ Tenneco, Inc., Naoerc Cozad, NE.......................... January 16, 2011.
Division, Leased
Workers from Elite
Staffing, Inc.
74,967................ Philips Lighting Danville, KY....................... March 12, 2010.
Company, Lighting
Division.
74,967A............... Adecco Employment Danville, KY....................... December 5, 2009.
Services, Working On-
site at Philips
Lighting Company;
Lighting Division.
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The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(c) (supplier to a firm whose workers are certified eligible
to apply for TAA) of the Trade Act have been met.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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74,090................ Daimler Trucks North Detroit, MI........................ May 13, 2009.
America, Detroit
Diesel.
74,259................ Lapeer Plating and Lapeer, MI......................... May 26, 2009.
Plastics, Inc., f/k/a
Dott Industries Deco
Plate; Dott
Acquisitions and IES,
Inc.
74,490................ Fermer Precision, Inc. Ilion, NY.......................... July 23, 2009.
74,866................ Mountain City Lumber Marion, VA......................... November 9, 2009.
Co., Cranberry
Hardwoods, Inc.
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Negative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance
In the following cases, the investigation revealed that the
eligibility criteria for worker adjustment assistance have not been met
for the reasons specified.
The investigation revealed that the criteria under paragraphs
(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) and (a)(2)(B) (shift in production or
services to a foreign country) of section 222 have not been met.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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74,417................ Good Harbor Fillet Gloucester, MA..................... ...........................
Company, LLC, Leased
Workers from
Employment on Demand
Agency.
74,669................ Greif Brothers Washington, PA..................... ...........................
Corporation, PPS.
74,790................ CTI and Associates, Wixom, MI.......................... ...........................
Inc.
74,949................ ProDrive Systems, Ogdensburg, NY..................... ...........................
Inc., TTI Turner
Technology
Instruments, Inc.;
Leased Workers Alpha
Staffing, etc.
74,991................ Norandex Building Gaylord, MI........................ ...........................
Materials
Distribution, Inc.,
Saint-Gobain.
75,062................ Bucyrus Community Bucyrus, OH........................ ...........................
Hospital, Inc.
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Determinations Terminating Investigations of Petitions for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
After notice of the petitions was published in the Federal Register
and on the Department's Web site, as required by Section 221 of the Act
(19 U.S.C. 2271), the Department initiated investigations of these
petitions.
The following determinations terminating investigations were issued
in cases where these petitions were not filed in accordance with the
requirements of 29 CFR 90.11. Every petition filed by workers must be
signed by at least three individuals of the petitioning worker group.
Petitioners separated more than one year prior to the date of the
petition cannot be covered under a certification of a petition under
Section 223(b), and therefore, may not be part of a petitioning worker
group. For one or more of these reasons, these petitions were deemed
invalid.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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75,076................ Sheet Metal Workers Southfield, MI.....................
Local 80.
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The following determinations terminating investigations were issued
because the petitioning groups of workers are covered by active
certifications. Consequently, further investigation in these cases
would serve no purpose since the petitioning group of workers cannot be
covered by more than one certification at a time.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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75,025................ Emerson Transportation Bridgeton, MO......................
Services, Emerson
Electric, Located
Throughout the US.
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I hereby certify that the aforementioned determinations were
issued during the period of January 10, 2011 through January 14,
2011. Copies of these determinations may be requested under the
Freedom of Information Act. Requests may be submitted by fax,
courier services, or mail to FOIA Disclosure Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210 or
[email protected]. These determinations also are available on
the Department's Web site at http://www.doleta.gov/tradeact under
the searchable listing of determinations.
Dated: January 19, 2011.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2011-1616 Filed 1-25-11; 8:45 am]
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