DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-58,055

NEW VENTURE INDUSTRIES
GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN

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 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 October 3, 2005, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers of New Venture
Industries, Grand Blanc, Michigan. The workers produce plastic
automotive components.
The investigation revealed that criterion (2) is not 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 to whom the subject firm supplied components as an
upstream supplier is located outside of the United States and
thus could never be the subject of a Trade Act certification
issued by the United States Department of Labor.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that all workers covered by this
petition of New Venture Industries, Grand Blanc, Michigan 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.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 17th day of November 2005.


/s/ Richard Church

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RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance