DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,210

GREDE FOUNDRIES, INC.
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
EMERALD CITY STAFFING
GREENWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA

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 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 15, 2009, on behalf of workers of Grede
Foundries, Inc., Greenwood, South Carolina. The workers
produce gray iron castings for refrigeration compressors. The
worker group includes on-site leased workers from Emerald City
Staffing.
The investigation revealed that workers of Grede Foundries,
Inc., Greenwood, South Carolina who are engaged in employment
related to gray iron castings meet the criteria as Suppliers
for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers were separated from employment during the relevant
period.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of Grede
Foundries, Inc., Greenwood, South Carolina produced and sold
gray iron castings to a significant declining customer to be
incorporated into cooling units. The workers of the customer
are covered by a certification based on increased imports
following a shift in production.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Grede Foundries, Inc. with regard to the TAA-certified
customer contributed importantly to the sales and/or
production decline and worker separations at the Greenwood,
South Carolina facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Grede Foundries,
Inc., Greenwood, South Carolina, who are engaged in employment
related to the production of gray iron castings 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 Grede Foundries, Inc., including on-site
leased workers from Emerald City Staffing, Greenwood,
South Carolina, 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 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 16th day of December, 2009


/s/Michael W. Jaffe
_____________________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance