DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,260

HDM TRANSPORTATION
LENOIR, NORTH CAROLINA

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 September 10, 2009, by a company official on behalf of
workers of HDM Transportation, Lenoir, North Carolina. The
workers provide transportation services for furniture.
The investigation revealed that workers of HDM
Transportation meet the criteria as a Downstream Producer for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the worker group was separated within the last year.
Criterion II has been met because HDM Transportation
provided transportation services to a firm that employed a
worker group who is covered by an active certification and the
transportation services provided were related to the article
that was the basis of the firm's certification.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
with the TAA-certified firm contributed importantly to the
worker separations at HDM Transportation.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of HDM Transportation,
Lenoir, North Carolina, who are engaged in employment related to
transportation services 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 HDM Transportation, Lenoir, North
Carolina, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after September 9, 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 5th day of April, 2010


/s/Michael W. Jaffe
______________________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance