DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-51,450

STRATFORD DIE CASTING, INC.
ZINC DIE CASTING DIVISION
WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 USC 2273), as amended, the Department of Labor herein
presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance as an adversely affected secondary group.
An investigation was conducted in order to determine
whether the petitioning group of workers qualify as
adversely affected secondary workers as suppliers to a firm
or subdivision primarily affected by increased imports or a
shift of production abroad.
In order to make an affirmative determination and
issue a certification of eligibility to apply for
adjustment assistance, the following group eligibility
requirements under Section 222(b) must be met:
(1) a significant number or proportion of the workers
in the workers' firm or an appropriate
subdivision of the firm have become totally or
partially separated, or are threatened to become
totally or partially separated;

(2) the workers' firm (or subdivision) is a supplier
or downstream producer to a firm (or subdivision)
that employed a group of workers who received a
certification of eligibility to apply for trade
adjustment assistance benefits and such supply or
production is related to the article that was the
basis for such certification; and

(3) either-

(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the
component parts it supplied for the firm (or
subdivision) 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 (or subdivision) described in paragraph
(2) contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation.

The investigation was initiated in response to a
petition received on April 9, 2003 and filed by a company
official on behalf of workers at Stratford Die Casting,
Inc., Zinc Die Casting Division, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. The workers produce furniture hardware,
electrical housing dies and gat gauges.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3)(A) has
not been met.
Petitioners allege that job losses were due to their
firm losing business as a supplier to a firm that shifted
production abroad or was affected by increased imports.
The investigation revealed, however, that was not the
case. The firm whose workers were certified eligible for
Trade Adjustment Assistance did not account for at least 20
percent of the subject firm sales.
The Department of Labor surveyed the subject firm's
major declining customers regarding their purchases of
furniture hardware, electrical housing dies and gat gauges
from the subject firm. The survey revealed that the
subject firm's major declining customers did not import
furniture hardware, electrical housing dies and gat gauges
during the period under investigation.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Stratford Die Casting, Inc., Zinc Die Casting Division,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 6th day of June 2003.

/s/ Linda G. Poole

______________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance