DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,140

WALL PRINTING COMPANY
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS OF TRC STAFFING
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. 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;

II. the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who
received a certification of eligibility under Section
222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such
supply or production is related to the article or
service that was the basis for such certification; and

III. either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component
parts it supplied to the firm 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
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
term "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly
to another firm component parts for articles, or in the supply
of services, as the case may be, that were the basis for a
certification of eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section
222 of the Act] of a group of workers employed by such other
firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 18, 2009 by a company official on behalf of workers
of Wall Printing Company, High Point, North Carolina. The
investigation revealed that the worker group includes on-site
leased workers of TRC Staffing. Workers at the subject firm
produce label prints and tags. Workers are not separately
identifiable by product line.
The investigation revealed that workers of Wall Printing
Company, including on-site leased workers of TRC Staffing,
High Point, North Carolina who are engaged in employment
related to the production of label prints and tags meet the
criteria as suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of the workers in the workers' firm have become
totally or partially separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of Wall
Printing Company, including on-site leased workers of TRC
Staffing, High Point, North Carolina produced and sold label
prints and tags to SMI Bell Manufacturing, dba SML Bekk,
Lewiston, Maine to be incorporated into woven and printed
labels. Workers of SMI Bell Manufacturing, dba SML Bekk,
Lewiston, Maine are covered by an existing certification (TA-
W-64,371). That certification was issued on the basis of a
shift in production overseas of woven and printed labels.
Criterion III has been met because the decline in sales
of woven and printed labels produced by SMI Bell
Manufacturing, dba SML Bekk, Lewiston, Maine contributed
importantly to the production and sales declines of Wall
Printing Company, including on-site leased workers of TRC
Staffing, High Point, North Carolina.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Wall Printing
Company, including on-site leased workers of TRC Staffing,
High Point, North Carolina who are engaged in employment related
to label prints and tags meet the worker group certification
criteria under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a).
In accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I
make the following certification:
"All workers of Wall Printing Company, including on-site
leased workers of TRC Staffing, High Point, North
Carolina who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after May 18, 2008 through two years from
the date of certification, and all workers in the group
threatened with total or partial separation from employment
on the date of certification through two years from the
date of certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment
assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of
1974, as amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 17th day of September 2009.

/s/ Elliott S. Kushner

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