DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,207

SANFORD BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS OF
MANPOWER, INC., AND SPHERION
JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN

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 June 15, 2009, by three workers on behalf of workers of
Sanford Business to Business, Janesville, Wisconsin. The
worker group also includes leased workers of Manpower, Inc., and
Spherion working on-site at Sanford Business to Business,
Janesville, Wisconsin. The workers produced imprinted pens.
The investigation revealed that workers of Sanford Business
to Business, Janesville, Wisconsin, who are engaged in
activities related to imprinted pens meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
the subject worker group has been laid off.
Criterion II has been net because the workers' firm is
shifting to a foreign country the production of an article
like or directly competitive with the article provided by the
workers.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of
production of imprinted pens to Mexico by Sanford Business to
Business, Janesville, Wisconsin, contributed importantly to
worker group separations at Sanford Business to Business,
Janesville, Wisconsin.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Sanford Business to
Business, Janesville, Wisconsin, who are engaged in activities
related to the production of imprinted pens 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 Sanford Business to Business, including
on-site leased workers of Manpower, Inc., and Spherion,
Janesville, Wisconsin, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after June 12, 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 25th day of November, 2009


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