DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,937

HUF NORTH AMERICA
A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF HUF HULSBECK & FURST GMBH AND
COMPANY KG
TENNESSEE MANUFACTURING & PARTS DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM STAFF PRO
GREENEVILLE, TENNESSEE

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(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(1)) requires that a significant
number or proportion of the workers in the workers' firm
must have become totally or partially separated or be
threatened with total or partial separation.

II. The second criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(2) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)) may be satisfied if either:

(i)(I) there has been a shift by the workers' firm to a
foreign country in the production of articles or
supply of services like or directly competitive with
those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; OR
(i)(II) there has been an acquisition from a foreign
country by the workers' firm of articles/services that
are like or directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers' firm.

III. The third criterion requires that the shift/acquisition
must have contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation. See Section
222(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2272(a)(2)(B)(ii).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on August 6, 2009 on behalf of workers of Huf North
America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huf Hulsbeck & Furst
GMBH & Company KG, Tennessee Manufacturing & Parts Division,
Greeneville, Tennessee (Huf North America). The worker group
includes on-site leased workers from Staff Pro. The workers
produce security and immobilization assemblies.
The investigation revealed that workers of Huf North
America who are engaged in activities related to security and
immobilization assembly production meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant portion of
workers have been separated and threatened with additional
separations.
Criterion II has been met because the subject firm has
shifted production of articles like or directly competitive
with security and immobilization assembly production by the
workers to a foreign country.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of security
and immobilization assemblies to a foreign country by Huf
North America contributed importantly to worker group
separations at Huf North America.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Huf North America, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GMBH & Company
KG, Tennessee Manufacturing & Parts Division, including on-
site leased workers from Staff Pro, Greeneville, Tennessee
(Huf North America), who are engaged in employment related to
security and immobilization assembly production 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 Huf North America, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GMBH & Company KG,
Tennessee Manufacturing & Parts Division, including on-
site leased workers from Staff Pro, Greeneville,
Tennessee (Huf North America), who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after August 5,
2008, through two years from the date of certification, 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 in Washington, D.C., this 15th day of October, 2009.

/s/ Elliott S. Kushner

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