DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,378

GENERAL FASTENERS COMPANY
RICHMOND, INDIANA

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 January 28, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of General Fasteners Company, Richmond, Indiana
(General Fasteners). The workers are engaged in activities
related to the supply of fastener distribution and warehousing
services.
The investigation revealed that workers of General
Fasteners who are engaged in activities related to supply of
fastener distribution and warehousing services meet the criteria
as Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of workers within the workers' firm have been
separated from employment.
Criterion II has been met because workers of General
Fasteners provided fastener distribution and warehousing
services directly to a firm with a currently certified TAA
worker group, and the service supplied was related to the
production of an article that was the basis for the TAA
certification.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by General Fasteners with the TAA-certified firm, with respect
to warehousing and distribution services sold to the TAA-
certified firm, contributed importantly to worker separations
at General Fasteners.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of General Fasteners
Company, Richmond, Indiana, who are engaged in activities
related to supply of fastener distribution and warehousing
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 General Fasteners Company, Richmond,
Indiana, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after January 27, 2009, 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 3rd day of August, 2010


/s/ Elliot S. Kushner

______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance