DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-50,048

COOPER INDUSTRIES
COOPER POWER SYSTEMS DIVISION
WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN

TA-W-50,048A

COOPER INDUSTRIES
COOPER POWER SYSTEMS DIVISION
SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended (19 USC 2273), the Department of Labor herein presents the
results of an investigation regarding certification of eligibility
to apply for worker adjustment assistance. The group eligibility
requirements for directly-impacted (primary) workers under Section
222(a) the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, can be satisfied in
either of two ways:
I. Section (a)(2)(A) all of the following must be satisfied:
A. a significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision of the firm,
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
B. the sales or production, or both, of such firm or
subdivision have decreased absolutely; and
C. increased imports of articles like or directly competitive
with articles produced by such firm or subdivision have
contributed importantly to such workers' separation or
threat of separation and to the decline in sales or
production of such firm or subdivision; or



II. Section (a)(2)(B) both of the following must be satisfied:

A. a significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision of the firm
firm, have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
B. there has been a shift in production by such workers' firm
or subdivision to a foreign country of articles like or
directly competitive with articles which are produced by
such firm or subdivision; and

C. One of the following must be satisfied:
1. the country to which the workers' firm has shifted
production of the articles is a party to a free trade
agreement with the United States;
2. the country to which the workers' firm has shifted
production of the articles is a beneficiary country
under the Andean Trade Preference Act, African Growth
and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin Economic
Recovery Act; or
3. there has been or is likely to be an increase in
imports of articles that are like or directly
competitive with articles which are or were produced
by such firm or subdivision.

The investigation was initiated on November 12, 2002 in
response to a petition filed by a state agency on behalf of workers
at Cooper Industries, a Cooper Power Systems Division, Waukesha,
Wisconsin (TA-W-50,048) and Cooper Industries, a Cooper Power
Systems Division, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin (TA-W-50,048A). The
workers at the subject facilities produce electrical distribution
transformers/switchgears and voltage regulators and are not
separately identifiable by product.
The investigation revealed that criteria (a)(2)(A)(I.C) and
(a)(2)(B)(II.B) were not met.
The investigation revealed that the subject facilities did not
import electrical distribution transformers/switchgears and voltage
regulators, nor did it shift production to a foreign country that
is a party to a free trade agreement with the United States or
beneficiary countries from 2000 to 2001 as well as during the
period of January through October 2002 when compared to the same
period in 2001.
Furthermore, the investigation revealed that the subject firm
experienced a loss of export sales of the electrical distribution
transformers/switchgears and voltage regulators.
The petitioner claimed that the assembly work for the
electrical distribution transformers/switchgears and voltage
regulators is being transferred overseas. The investigation
revealed that this was not the case.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Cooper
Industries, a Cooper Power Systems Division, Waukesha, Wisconsin
and Cooper Industries, a Cooper Power Systems Division, South
Milwaukee, Wisconsin are denied eligibility to apply for adjust-
ment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 22nd day of January 2003



/s/Linda G. Poole_____________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance