DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,703

YOUNG TOUCHSTONE
A SUBSIDIARY OF WABTEC CORPORATION
LEXINGTON, 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(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 October 27, 2009 on behalf of workers of Young
Touchstone, a subsidiary of Wabtec Corporation, Lexington,
Tennessee. The workers are engaged in employment related to the
production of radiators.
The investigation revealed that workers of Young
Touchstone, Lexington, Tennessee, who are engaged in employment
related to the production of radiators, meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
or number of workers at the subject firm was totally or
partially separated during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Young
Touchstone produced and sold a component part (radiators) to be
incorporated into a finished article to a firm that employed a
worker group who is eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment
Assistance (TAA).
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Young Touchstone, Lexington, Tennessee with the afore-
mentioned firm, with respect to radiators, contributed
importantly to worker separations at the Lexington, Tennessee
facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Young Touchstone, a
subsidiary of Wabtec Corporation, Lexington, Tennessee, who are
engaged in employment related to the production of radiators,
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 Young Touchstone, a subsidiary of Wabtec
Corporation, Lexington, Tennessee, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after October 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 18th day of June, 2010


/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance