DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,698

PROGRESSIVE STAMPING COMPANY
INCLUDING ONSITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
U.S. QUALITY
ROYAL OAK, MICHIGAN

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 services used in the
production of 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 June 28, 2009 by a company official on behalf of workers
of Progressive Stamping Company, including onsite leased workers
from U.S. Quality, Royal Oak, Michigan, hereafter referred to as
Progressive Stamping. The workers produce fasteners for automotive
assembly.
The investigation revealed that workers of Progressive
Stamping who are engaged in employment related to automotive
fasteners meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
the workers have been separated in 2008 and 2009.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Progressive
Stamping produced and sold automotive fasteners to General Motors
Corporation, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain Division, Warren,
Michigan, to be incorporated into finished vehicles. Workers of
General Motors Corporation, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain
Division, Warren, Michigan, are covered by certification number
TA-W-65,564 issued based on increased aggregate U.S. imports of
finished vehicles.
Criterion III has been met because the automotive fasteners
produced by Progressive Stamping for finished vehicles, accounted
for at least 20 percent of the production or sales of automotive
fasteners.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Progressive Stamping
Company, including onsite leased workers from U.S. Quality, Royal
Oak, Michigan, who are engaged in employment related to fasteners
for automotive assembly 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 Progressive Stamping Company, including onsite
leased workers from U.S. Quality, Royal Oak, Michigan, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after May 27, 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 5th day of August, 2009


/s/Richard Church
______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance