DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,803

BRILLION IRON WORKS, INC.
A SUBSIDIARY OF ACCURIDE CORPORATION
BRILLION, WISCONSIN

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 24, 2009 by the United Steel, Paper and Forestry,
Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service
Workers International Union, Local 2-475 on behalf of workers of
Brillion Iron Works, Brillion, Inc., a subsidiary of Accuride
Corporation, Brillion, Wisconsin (Brillion). Workers at the
subject firm are engaged in activities related to the production
of gray and ductile iron castings.
The investigation revealed that workers of Brillion Iron
Works, Brillion, Inc., a subsidiary of Accuride Corporation,
Brillion, Wisconsin who are engaged in activities related to
the production of gray and ductile iron castings meet the
criteria as Suppliers 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.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Brillion
produced and sold gray and ductile iron castings to firms that
employed worker groups who are covered by active
certifications to be incorporated into cabs for heavy duty
trucks, drive train components for recreational vehicles and
machine parts produced by customers with TAA-certified
workers.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Brillion with the TAA-certified firms, with respect to gray
and ductile iron castings sold to the TAA-certified firms,
contributed importantly to worker separations at Brillion.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Brillion Iron Works,
Brillion, Inc., a subsidiary of Accuride Corporation,
Brillion, Wisconsin who are engaged in activities related to the
production of gray and ductile 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 Brillion, Inc., a subsidiary of Accuride
Corporation, Brillion, Wisconsin, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after July 22,
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 2nd day of March 2010


/s/Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance