DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,960

GE CONSUMER AND INDUSTRIAL LIGHTING
WILLOUGHBY LUCALOX PLANT
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO

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 May 21, 2009 by a company official on behalf of workers
of GE Consumer and Industrial Lighting, Willoughby Lucalox
Plant, Willoughby, Ohio. The workers produce ceramic arc tube
components, lighting chambers, and end plugs, for use in high-
intensity discharge lamps. The petition alleges that production
is being shifted from the Willoughby Lucalox Plant to Hungary
and China.
The investigation revealed that workers of GE Consumer and
Industrial Lighting who are engaged in employment related to
the production of ceramic arc tube components, lighting
chambers, and end plugs, for use in high-intensity discharge
lamps at the Willoughby Lucalox Plant meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of workers at the Willoughby Lucalox Plant have been separated
from employment in year-to-date 2009 compared with the same
period in 2008.
Criterion II has been met because the subject firm has
shifted production to Hungary and China of articles like or
directly competitive with those produced by the workers' firm.
Criterion III has been met because the shift in
production of ceramic arc tube components, lighting chambers,
and end plugs, by GE Consumer and Industrial Lighting
contributed importantly to worker separations at Willoughby
Lucalox Plant.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Willoughby Lucalox
Plant, Willoughby, Ohio, who are engaged in employment related
to production of ceramic arc tube components, lighting chambers
and end plugs 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 GE Commercial and Industrial Lighting,
Willoughby Lucalox Plant, Willoughby, Ohio, who became
totally or partially separated from employment on or after
May 21, 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 16th day of June, 2009


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