DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-65,302

MILLER PRODUCTS CORPORATION
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Certification 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 a secondarily affected
worker group.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility for secondary workers to apply for
Trade Adjustment Assistance, the group eligibility requirements of
paragraph (b) of Section 222 of the Trade Act, as amended, must be
met. It is determined in this case that the requirements of (b) of
Section 222, as amended, have been met.
The investigation was initiated on February 19, 2009, in
response to a petition filed by the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Local 406, on behalf of workers of Miller Products
Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The workers produce painted
automotive related parts.
Miller Products Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, acts as a
downstream producer painting automotive related parts, including
metal outside rearview mirrors.
Evidence revealed the primary firm, to whom the petitioning
workers' firm acts as a downstream producer, employed a group of
workers who received a certification of eligibility for trade
adjustment assistance based on an increase in imports from Mexico,
and the downstream production is related to the article that was
the basis for such certification. The subject firm's employment
declined, in part, because of the imports of metal outside rearview
mirrors from Mexico.
In addition, in order for the Department to issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for ATAA, the group
eligibility requirements of Section 246 of the Trade Act must be
met. The Department has determined in this case that the
requirements of Section 246 have been met.
A significant number of workers at the firm are age 50 or over
and possess skills that are not easily transferable. Competitive
conditions within the industry are adverse.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Miller Products
Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, qualify as adversely affected
secondary workers under Section 222(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the
following certification:


"All workers of Miller Products Corporation, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after February 16, 2008, through two years
from the date of certification are eligible to apply for
adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of
1974, and are also eligible to apply for alternative trade
adjustment assistance under section 246 of the Trade Act of
1974."
Signed at Washington, D.C., this 22nd day of April 2009


/s/ Linda G. Poole
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LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance