DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,561

UNITED TOOL & PLASTICS, INC.
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA

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 October 13, 2009 by a company official on behalf of
workers of United Tool & Plastics, Inc., Waynesboro, Virginia
(United Tool & Plastics). The workers produce plastic
component parts.
The investigation revealed that workers of United Tool &
Plastics who are engaged in activities related to the
production of plastic component parts meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers have been separated from the subject firm and
threatened with further separations during the relevant
period.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the subject firm
has shifted production of like or directly competitive
articles with the articles produced by the subject firm.
Criterion III has been met because the shift of plastic
component parts to a foreign country by United Tool & Plastics
contributed importantly to worker group separations at United
Tool & Plastics.





Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of United Tool &
Plastics, Inc., Waynesboro, Virginia, who are engaged in
activities related to the production plastic component 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 United Tool & Plastics, Inc., Waynesboro,
Virginia, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after October 8, 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 13th day of November, 2009.

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