DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,376

JOHNSONTOWN SPECIALTY CASTINGS, INC.
JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

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 24, 2009, by the United Steel Workers of America,
Local 2632-16 on behalf of workers of Johnstown Specialty
Castings, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The workers produce steel
castings, slag pots, steel rolls and sleeves, and mill liners.
The investigation revealed that workers of Johnstown
Specialty Castings, Johnstown, Pennsylvania who are engaged in
employment related to production of steel castings, slag pots,
steel rolls and sleeves, and mill liners meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers were separated during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of
Johnstown Specialty Castings, Johnstown, Pennsylvania produced
and sold steel castings, slag pots, steel rolls and sleeves,
and mill liners to a firm that employed a TAA-certified worker
group to be incorporated into tapered roller bearings,
specialty steel bars and seamless tubing.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
with the firm that employed a TAA-certified worker group
contributed importantly to the worker separations.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Johnstown Specialty
Castings, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in
employment related to the production of steel castings, slag
pots, steel rolls and sleeves, and mill liners meet the worker
group certification criteria under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2272(c). In accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2273, I make the following certification:
"All workers of Johnstown Specialty Castings, Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after June 17, 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 25th day of March, 2010

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