DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,823

SALEM CARRIERS, INC.
ASHEVILLE ACCOUNT
WINSTON-SALEM, 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 November 10, 2009 on behalf of workers of Salem
Carriers, Inc., Asheville Account, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. The workers are engaged in activities related to the
supply of transportation services.
The investigation revealed that workers of Salem Carriers
who are engaged in activities related to the supply of
transportation services meet the criteria as a Downstream
Producer for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the workers have been separated or threatened worker
separation.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Salem
Carriers supplied transportation services to a firm that
employed a worker group who is covered by an active
certification and the transportation services were related to
the article that was the for certification.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
with the TAA-certified firm contributed importantly to the
worker separations at Salem Carriers.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Salem Carriers, Inc.,
Asheville Account, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who are
engaged in activities related to the supply of 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 Salem Carriers, Asheville Account,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after November 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 13th day of April, 2010


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