DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,979

PARTS FINISHING GROUP INDIANA
KENDALLVILLE, 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 "Downstream Producer" as "a firm that performs additional,
value-added production processes or services directly for
another firm for articles or services with respect to which a
group of workers in such other firm has been certified under
subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act]" and defines the term
"value-added production processes or services" to "include final
assembly, finishing, testing, packaging, or maintenance or
transportation services."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on August 11, 2009 by three workers on behalf of workers
of Parts Finishing Group Indiana, Kendallville, Indiana. The
workers apply adhesive to rubber automotive parts so that they
can be chemically bonded to metal. Parts are not owned by the
subject firm.
The investigation revealed that workers of Parts Finishing
Group Indiana, who are engaged in employment related to the
application of adhesive to rubber automotive parts, meet the
criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because workers were separated
from the Kendallville plant at its closing in early 2009.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Parts
Finishing Group Indiana performed additional value added
production processes including finishing - applying adhesives
to automotive parts - to firms that employed worker groups who
are covered by active certifications for Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Parts Finishing Group Indiana with the TAA-certified firm,
with respect to the application of adhesive to rubber
automotive parts sold to the TAA-certified firms, contributed
importantly to worker separations at Parts Finishing Group
Indiana.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Parts Finishing Group
Indiana, Kendallville, Indiana, who are engaged in employment
related to the application of adhesive to rubber automotive
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 Parts Finishing Group Indiana,
Kendallville, Indiana, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after August 10, 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 February, 2010


/s/Richard Church
______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance