DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,528

ALLEGHENY LUDLUM CORPORATION
A DIVISION OF ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS OF ALLTEK STAFFING AND
RESOURCE GROUP
MIDLAND, PENNSYLVANIA


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 26, 2009 by the United Steelworkers of America,
Local 1212 on behalf of workers of Allegheny Ludlum
Corporation, a division of Allegheny Technologies
Incorporated, Midland, Pennsylvania. The investigation
revealed that the worker group includes on-site leased workers
of AllTek Staffing and Resource Group. Workers at the subject
firm produce stainless steel sheets.
The investigation revealed that workers of Allegheny Ludlum
Corporation, a division of Allegheny Technologies
Incorporated, including on-site leased workers of AllTek
Staffing and Resource Group, Midland, Pennsylvania who are
engaged in employment related to the production of stainless
steel sheets 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
Allegheny Ludlum Corporation, a division of Allegheny
Technologies Incorporated, including on-site leased workers of
AllTek Staffing and Resource Group, Midland, Pennsylvania
produced and sold stainless steel sheets to Joseph T Ryerson &
Son, Inc., Chicago Service Center, Chicago, Illinois to be
incorporated into steel, stainless steel and aluminum
processing. Workers of Joseph T Ryerson & Son, Inc., Chicago
Service Center, Chicago, Illinois are covered by an existing
certification (TA-W-63,177). That certification was issued on
the basis of a shift in production overseas of steel,
stainless steel and aluminum processing.
Criterion III has been met because the stainless steel
sheets produced by Allegheny Ludlum Corporation, a division
of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, including on-site
leased workers of AllTek Staffing and Resource Group, Midland,
Pennsylvania for Joseph T Ryerson & Son, Inc., Chicago Service
Center, Chicago, Illinois accounted for at least 20 percent of
the production or sales of Allegheny Ludlum Corporation, a
division of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, including on-
site leased workers of AllTek Staffing and Resource Group,
Midland, Pennsylvania.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Allegheny Ludlum
Corporation, a division of Allegheny Technologies
Incorporated, including on-site leased workers of AllTek
Staffing and Resource Group, Midland, Pennsylvania who are
engaged in employment related to stainless steel sheets 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 Allegheny Ludlum Corporation, a division
of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, including on-site
leased workers of AllTek Staffing and Resource Group,
Midland, Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after May 22, 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 26th day of June 2009.


/s/Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance