DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,410

AVNET GRAPEVINE ASSEMBLY FACILITY
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM KELLY SERVICES
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS

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(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(1)) requires that a significant
number or proportion of the workers in the workers' firm
must have become totally or partially separated or be
threatened with total or partial separation.

II. The second criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(2) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)) may be satisfied if either:

(i)(I) there has been a shift by the workers' firm to a
foreign country in the production of articles or
supply of services like or directly competitive with
those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; OR
(i)(II) there has been an acquisition from a foreign
country by the workers' firm of articles/services that
are like or directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers' firm.

III. The third criterion requires that the shift/acquisition
must have contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation. See Section
222(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2272(a)(2)(B)(ii).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 22, 2009 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Avnet Grapevine Assembly Facility, Grapevine, Texas
(Avnet Grapevine). The worker group also consists of on-site
leased workers from Kelly Services. The worker group is
engaged in employment relating to the production, distribution,
and warehousing of electromechanical assemblies which the
petitioner has alleged is shifting to Mexico.
The investigation revealed that workers of Avnet Grapevine
who are engaged in employment related to electromechanical
assemblies meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because worker separations have
occurred comparing the employment count of April 2009 to April
2008.
Criterion II has been met because the workers' firm has
acquired from a foreign country articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the workers.
Criterion III has been met because the acquisition of
electromechanical assemblies from Mexico by Avnet Grapevine
contributed importantly to worker group separations at Avnet
Grapevine.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Avnet Grapevine
Assembly Facility, Grapevine, Texas, who are engaged in
employment related to production, distribution, and warehousing
of electromechanical assemblies 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 Avnet Grapevine Assembly Facility,
Grapevine, Texas including on-site leased workers from
Kelly Services, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after May 19, 2008, through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the
group threatened with total or partial separation from
employment on 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 24th day of June, 2009.


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