DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,462

WINDSOR FORESTRY TOOLS
A SUBSIDIARY OF BLOUNT, INC.
MILAN, TENNESSEE

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 21, 2009 by a company official on behalf of workers
of Windsor Forestry Tools, a subsidiary of Blount, Inc., Milan,
Tennessee. The workers are engaged in the production of chainsaw
chain, bars, sprockets, and accessories. Workers are not
separately identifiable by product line.
The investigation revealed that workers of the Milan,
Tennessee, facility who are engaged in employment related to the
production of chainsaw chain, bars, sprockets, and accessories
meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
the workers has been separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the workers' firm
has shifted the production of articles like or directly
competitive with chainsaw chain, bars, sprockets, and accessories
to a foreign country.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of production
of chainsaw chain, bars, sprockets, and accessories from the Milan,
Tennessee facility to China contributed importantly to worker
group separations at that facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Windsor Forestry Tools,
a subsidiary of Blount, Inc., Milan, Tennessee, who are engaged in
employment related to the production of chainsaw chain, bars,
sprockets, and accessories 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 Windsor Forestry Tools, a subsidiary of
Blount, Inc., Milan, Tennessee, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after May 20, 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 8th day of September, 2009

/s/ Richard Church

______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance