DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,739

U.S. STEEL TUBULAR PRODUCTS, INC.
WHEELING MACHINE PRODUCTS DIVISION
A SUBSIDIARY OF UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION
HUGHES SPRINGS, TEXAS

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 November 3, 2009, by the United Steelworkers Union,
Local 4134, on behalf of workers of U.S. Steel Tubular Products,
Inc., Wheeling Machine Products Division, a subsidiary of United
States Steel Corporation, Hughes Springs, Texas (U.S. Steel
Tubular Products, Inc.). The workers produce steel pipe
couplings.
The investigation revealed that workers of U.S. Steel
Tubular Products, Inc. who are engaged in employment related to
production of steel pipe couplings meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because employment at the
subject facility declined by at least five percent during the
relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of U.S. Steel
Tubular Products, Inc. produced and sold steel pipe couplings
to a firm that employed a worker group that is covered by an
active certification to be incorporated into steel tubular
products.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by U.S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. with the TAA-certified
firm contributed importantly to worker separations at the
Hughes Springs, Texas facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of U.S. Steel Tubular
Products, Inc., Wheeling Machine Products Division, a subsidiary
of United States Steel Corporation, Hughes Springs, Texas, who
are engaged in employment related to the production of steel
pipe couplings 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 U.S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc., Wheeling
Machine Products Division, a subsidiary of United States
Steel Corporation, Hughes Springs, Texas, who became
totally or partially separated from employment on or after
November 2, 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 22nd day of January, 2010

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