DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,921

GOLDEN STATE BOX FACTORY
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

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. (Set forth in 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 June 3, 2009, by a State Workforce Agent on behalf of
workers of Golden State Box Factory, San Diego, California
(Golden State). The workers are engaged in employment related
to the supply of accounting and packaging services of wooden
wine boxes. Workers are not separately identifiable by
function.
The worker group includes an employee working from a home
office in Santa Rosa, California, but reporting to the San
Diego, California facility.
The investigation revealed that workers of Golden State,
who are engaged in employment related to the supply of
accounting and packaging services of wooden wine boxes, meet the
criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of workers at Golden State have been separated
during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because there has been a shift
to a foreign country by Golden State in the supply of services
like or directly competitive with the accounting and packaging
services supplied by the workers' firm.
Criterion III has been met because the shift in services
to Mexico contributed importantly to worker group separations
at Golden State Box Factory, San Diego, California.

Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Golden State Box
Factory, San Diego, California, who are engaged in employment
related to the supply of accounting and packaging services, 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 Golden State Box Factory, San Diego,
California, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after June 1, 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 8th day of January, 2010

/s/Del Min Amy Chen
_______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance