DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-64,809

S & B INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGIES, LP
FORT WORTH, TEXAS

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, 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 January 5, 2009 in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
workers at S & B Industry Technologies LP, Fort Worth, Texas.
Workers are engaged in the repair and refurbishment of cellular
telephones for customers. Telephones worked on by employees of
the subject firm were returned to the original owners.
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 workers doing repair and refurbishment at the
Monmouth facility do not support a firm that produces an article
domestically; thus the worker group cannot be considered import
impacted or affected by a shift in production of an article.
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 of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that all workers of S & B Industry
Technologies LP, Fort Worth, Texas, are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment 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 3rd day of February 2009

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