DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,727

TI AUTOMOTIVE
SUBSIDIARY OF TI GROUP AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LLC
FUEL SYSTEMS DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM PRO RESOURCES
OSSIAN, INDIANA

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 July 20, 2009 on behalf of workers of TI Automotive,
subsidiary of TI Group Automotive Systems, LCC, Fuel Systems
Division, Ossian, Indiana (hereinafter referred to as TI
Automotive). The workers are engaged in activities related to
the production of automotive gas tanks composed of blow-molded
plastic (hereinafter referred to as automotive gas tanks). The
worker group includes on-site leased workers from Pro Resources.
The investigation revealed that workers of TI Automotive,
who are engaged in activities related to the production of
automotive gas tanks, meet the criteria as Suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
or number of the workers at TI Automotive have been totally or
partially separated, or threatened with such separation,
during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of TI
Automotive produced and sold component parts (automotive gas
tanks) to be incorporated into automobiles to a firm that
employed a worker group who is currently eligible to apply for
Trade Adjustment Assistance based on a certification related
to automobiles.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by TI Automotive with the aforementioned firm, with respect to
automotive gas tanks, contributed importantly to worker
separations at the Ossian, Indiana facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of TI Automotive,
subsidiary of TI Group Automotive Systems, LCC, Fuel Systems
Division, including on-site leased workers from Pro Resources,
Ossian, Indiana, who are engaged in activities related to the
production of automotive gas tanks, 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 TI Automotive, subsidiary of TI Group
Automotive Systems, LCC, Fuel Systems Division, including
on-site leased workers from Pro Resources, Ossian, Indiana,
who became totally or partially separated from employment
on or after July 7, 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 19th day of March, 2010

/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance