DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,426

LORDSTOWN SEATING SYSTEMS
A SUBSIDIARY OF MAGNA SEATING
INCLUDING WORKERS WHOSE
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (UI) WAGES ARE REPORTED THROUGH
INTIER AUTOMOTIVE SEATINGS OF AMERICA
LORDSTOWN, OHIO

Amended 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 issued
a Certification of Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance on April 8, 2010, applicable to workers of Lordstown
Seating Systems, a subsidiary of Magna Seating, Lordstown, Ohio.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on May 5,
2010(75 FR 24751).
At the request of the state, the Department reviewed the
certification for workers of the subject firm. The workers
produce seating for automobiles.
New information shows that some workers separated from
employment at the subject firm had their wages reported under a
separated unemployment insurance (UI) tax account under the name
Intier Automotive Seatings of America, Inc.
Accordingly, the Department is amending this certification
to property reflect this matter.
The intent of the Department’s certification is to include
all workers of the subject firm who were secondarily affected as
a supplier of seating for automobiles to a TAA certified firm.
The amended notice applicable to TA-W-71,426 is hereby
issued as follows:
"All workers of Lordstown Seating Systems, a subsidiary of
Magna Seating, including workers whose unemployment
insurance (UI) wages are reported through Intier Automotive
Seatings of America, Inc., Lordstown, Ohio, who became
totally or partially separated from who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after June 25,
2008 through April 8, 2012, 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 at Washington, D.C. this 3rd day of June, 2010.
/s/ Michael W. Jaffe
__________________________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Division
of Trade Adjustment Assistance
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,426

LORDSTOWN SEATING SYSTEMS
A SUBSIDIARY OF MAGNA SEATING
LORDSTOWN, 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(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 services used in the
production of 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 26, 2009 by an official from the United Automobile,
Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW),
Local 1112 on behalf of workers of Lordstown Seating Systems, a
subsidiary of Magna Seating, Lordstown, Ohio. The workers produce
seating for automobiles.
The investigation revealed that workers of Lordstown Seating
Systems who are engaged in employment related to the production
of automotive seating meet the criteria as Suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers have been separated over the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Lordstown
Seating Systems produced and sold automotive seating to a firm
that employed a worker group who is covered by an active
certification to be incorporated into automobiles.
Criterion III has been met because the automotive seating
produced by Lordstown Seating Systems for a firm that employed a
TAA-certified worker group accounted for at least 20 percent of
the production or sales of Lordstown Seating Systems.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Lordstown Seating
Systems, a subsidiary of Magna Seating, Lordstown, Ohio, who are
engaged in employment related to the production of automotive
seating, 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 Lordstown Seating Systems, a subsidiary of
Magna Seating, Lordstown, Ohio, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after June 25,
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 8th day of April, 2010


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



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