DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,812

FORD MOTOR COMPANY
WAYNE ASSEMBLY PLANT
WAYNE, MICHIGAN

Negative Determination 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.
Workers of a firm may be eligible for worker adjustment
assistance if they satisfy the criteria of subsection (a), (c)
or (f) of Section 222 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), (c), (f).
For the Department of Labor to issue a certification for workers
under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), the
following three criteria must be met:
I. The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2282(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 in one of two
ways:
(A) Increased Imports Path:
(i) sales or production, or both, at the workers' firm
must have decreased absolutely, AND
(ii) (I) imports of articles or services like or directly
competitive with articles or services produced or
supplied by the workers' firm have increased, OR
(II)(aa) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles into which the
component part produced by the workers' firm was
directly incorporated have increased; OR
(II)(bb) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles which are produced
directly using the services supplied by the
workers' firm have increased; OR
(III) imports of articles directly incorporating
component parts not produced in the U.S. that are
like or directly competitive with the article
into which the component part produced by the
workers' firm was directly incorporated have
increased.

(B) Shift in Production or Supply Path:
(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 increase in imports
or shift/acquisition must have contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation. See
Sections 222(a)(2)(A)(iii) and 222(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act,
19 U.S.C. §§ 2272(a)(2)(A)(iii), 2272(a)(2)(B)(ii).

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
terms "Supplier" and "Downstream Producer." For the Department
to issue a secondary worker certification under Section 222(c)
of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), to workers of a Supplier or a
Downstream Producer, the following criteria must be met:
(1) 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;

(2) 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

(3) 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.

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on November 10, 2009 by the International Union, United
Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of
America (UAW), Local 900, on behalf of workers of Ford Motor
Company, Wayne Assembly Plant, Wayne, Michigan. The workers
assemble the Ford Focus. Workers used to also assemble the
Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator at a second assembly
line in Wayne; production of the Ford Expedition and Lincoln
Navigator at Wayne ended in 2008.
The petition alleged that worker separations were
attributable to declines in production at other Ford Motor
Company facilities resulting in the bumping of workers at the
Wayne facility.
The investigation included collection of data from the
subject firm and an analysis of the United States market for
vehicles like or directly competitive with economy small cars as
well as large sports utility vehicles and premium large sports
utility vehicles.
With respect to Section 222(a) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that the workers of the Wayne Assembly
Plant did not meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion III has not been met because the workers'
separation was not related to an increase in imports or a
shift/acquisition by the subject firm of articles like or
directly competitive with the economy small cars, large sports
utility vehicles or premium large sports utility vehicles
assembled in Wayne, Michigan.
Ford Motor Company did not shift/acquire any vehicles like
or directly competitive with the Ford Expedition, Ford Focus or
Lincoln Navigator.
The Department of Labor conducted an analysis of the United
States market share of vehicles like or directly competitive
with the vehicles assembled in Wayne, Michigan. The Expedition,
Focus, and Navigator increased their share of the U.S. market in
2008 compared with 2007. The Ford Focus increased its share of
the U.S. market in January through October 2009 compared with
the same period in 2008.
The investigation revealed that worker separations are
attributable to a domestic transfer of Expedition and Navigator
production from Wayne, Michigan to Louisville, Kentucky.
Production was transferred to allow the facility to be retooled
for the next generation Focus.
With respect to Section 222(c) of the Act, the
investigation revealed that the workers of the Wayne Assembly
Plant did not meet the criteria for certification as secondarily
affected workers.
Criterion (2) has not been met because the workers did not
produce an article or supply a service that was used by a firm
with TAA-certified workers in the production of an article.
Finally, the group eligibility requirements under Section
222(f) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(f), have not been satisfied
because the workers' firm has not been identified in an
affirmative finding of injury by the ITC.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Ford Motor Company,
Wayne Assembly Plant, Wayne, Michigan who assemble automobiles
are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under
Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273.
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 30th day of June, 2010
/s/Richard Church
______________________________
RICHARD CHURCH
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance