DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,512

ALLEGHENY TOOL AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
MEADVILLE, 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 July 1, 2009 by a company official on behalf of workers
of Allegheny Tool and Manufacturing Company, Inc., Meadville,
Pennsylvania. Workers at the subject firm produce small machine
parts.
The investigation revealed that workers of Allegheny Tool
and Manufacturing Company, Inc., Meadville, Pennsylvania who
are engaged in employment related to the production of small
machine parts meet the criteria as a supplier for secondary
worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of the workers in the workers' firm have become
totally or partially separated during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of
Allegheny Tool and Manufacturing Company, Inc., Meadville,
Pennsylvania produced and sold small machine parts to Tyco
Electronics Corporation, Global Application Tooling Division,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to be incorporated into hand tools
and bench machines. Workers of Tyco Electronics Corporation,
Global Application Tooling Division, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
are covered by an existing Trade Adjustment Assistance
certification (TA-W-64,078). That certification was issued on
the basis of increased company imports of articles like or
directly competitive with termination equipment, hand tools,
and bench machines.
Criterion III has been met because the small machine
parts produced by Allegheny Tool and Manufacturing Company,
Inc., Meadville, Pennsylvania for Tyco Electronics
Corporation, Global Application Tooling Division, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania accounted for over 20 percent of the production
or sales of Allegheny Tool and Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
Meadville, Pennsylvania.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Allegheny Tool and
Manufacturing Company, Inc., Meadville, Pennsylvania who are
engaged in activities related to the production of small machine
parts 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 Allegheny Tool and Manufacturing Company,
Inc., Meadville, Pennsylvania who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after June 29,
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 22nd day of September 2009.

/s/ Elliott S. Kushner

______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance