DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,744

CALLAWAY GOLF BALL OPERATIONS, INC.
INCLUDING ONSITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
JOHNSON & HILL STAFFING SERVICES AND RELIABLE TEMPORARY SERVICES
CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS

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 29, 2009 by a company official on behalf of workers of
Calloway Golf Ball Operations, Inc., Chicopee, Massachusetts
(Chicopee Facility). The workers produce golf balls.
The petition alleges that production of golf balls has
shifted from the Chicopee facility to a manufacturing facility in
China.
The investigation revealed that workers of the Chicopee
facility who are engaged in employment related to the production
of golf balls meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
the workers have been separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the workers' firm
has shifted the production of an article like or directly
competitive with the golf balls produced by the workers to a
foreign country.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of production
of golf balls to China from the Chicopee Facility 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 Calloway Golf Ball
Operations, Inc., Chicopee, Massachusetts, who are engaged in
employment related to the production of golf balls 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 Calloway Golf Ball Operations, Inc.,
including on-site leased workers from Johnson & Hill Staffing
Services and Reliable Temporary Services, Chicopee,
Massachusetts, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after May 28, 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 30th day of June, 2009


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