DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,847

TECHNICAL MACHINING SERVICES, INC .
LINCOLN, RHODE ISLAND

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 29, 2009 on behalf of workers of Technical
Machining Services, Inc., Lincoln, Rhode Island (TMS, Inc).
The workers produce precision plastic and metal machined parts.
The investigation revealed that workers of TMS, Inc. who
are engaged in activities related to the production of
precision plastic and metal machined parts meet the criteria
as Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers have been separated from the subject firm.
Criterion II has been met because workers of TMS, Inc.
produced and sold precision plastic and metal machined parts
to Teradyne, Inc., North Reading, Massachusetts to be
incorporated into automated test equipment. Workers of
Teradyne, Inc., North Reading, Massachusetts are covered by
certification number TA-W-62,323 issued based on an increase
of imports of automated test equipment.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by TMS, Inc., with respect to precision plastic and metal
machined parts sold to Teradyne, Inc. contributed importantly
to worker separations at TMS, Inc.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Technical Machining
Services, Inc., Lincoln, Rhode Island, who are engaged in
activities related to the production of precision plastic and
metal machined 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 Technical Machining Services, Inc.,
Lincoln, Rhode Island, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after July 27, 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 21st day of October, 2009.


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