DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-56,200

MULTI-PLASTICS
INCLUDING LEASED WORKERS OF M-PLOY TEMPORARIES
SAEGERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply for
Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade
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 of component parts 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 on December 13, 2004, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers of Multi-
Plastics Inc., Saegertown, Pennsylvania. The workers produced
custom injection molded parts.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) 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.
Primary firms to which the subject firm supplied components
and whose workers are covered under trade adjustment assistance
certification accounted for a negligible percentage of the
subject firm's sales in 2003 and 2004. Evidence developed in the
course of the investigation revealed that job losses were due to
loss of business with facilities whose workers were not trade
adjustment assistance eligible.
In addition, in accordance with Section 246 the Trade Act
of 1974 (26 USC 2813), as amended, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of its investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for alternative trade
adjustment assistance (ATAA) for older workers.
In order for the Department to issue a certification of
eligibility to apply for ATAA, the worker group must be
certified eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance
(TAA). Since the workers are denied eligibility to apply for
TAA, the workers cannot be certified eligible for ATAA.



Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers covered
by this petition of Multi-Plastics Inc., Saegertown,
Pennsylvania do not qualify as adversely affected secondary
workers and are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment
assistance under section 223(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, and
are also denied eligibility to apply for alternative trade
adjustment assistance under Section 246 of the Trade Act of
1974.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 28th day of January 2005.

/s/ Elliott S. Kushner

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ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance