DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-59,923
DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC.
CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS

and

TA-W-59,923A
DOW JONES & COMPANY, INC.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY

Negative Determinations Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance
And Alternative Trade 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 investigation was initiated on August 17, 2006 in response
to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers of
Dow Jones and Company, Inc., Chicopee, Massachusetts and South
Brunswick, New Jersey. The workers, who are designated as
application analysts, application development consultants, and
applications architects, provide information technology (IT)
service support for the publications of the Dow Jones Corporation.
Workers in Chicopee, in what is called the "Circulation Systems"
group, provide technology support to the distribution labeling
system. In South Brunswick workers provide technological support to
graphic artists doing layout and related work.
In order to be considered eligible to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, the worker
group seeking certification (or on whose behalf certification is
being sought) must work for a "firm" or appropriate subdivision
that produces an article domestically and there must be a
relationship between the workers' work and the article produced by
the workers' firm or appropriate subdivision. The investigation
revealed that although production of an article(s) occurred within
the firm or appropriate subdivision, the application system
analysts, consultants, and architects involved in the information
technology work indicated above do not directly support this
production. Thus the worker group cannot be considered import
impacted or affected by a shift in production of an article.
Furthermore, the printing of the publications of the Dow Jones
Corporation destined for the domestic market has not been
transferred abroad, and the publications are not being imported
into the United States.
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 of Dow
Jones and Company, Inc., Chicopee, Massachusetts and South
Brunswick, New Jersey are denied eligibility to apply for adjust-
ment assistance under Section 223 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 in Washington, D.C., this 17th day of October, 2006



/s/Richard Church
______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance