DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,515

MINIATURE PRECISION COMPONENTS
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WISCONSIN

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 February 19, 2010 on behalf of workers of Miniature
Precision Components, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The workers
are engaged in activities related to production of plastic
components for automobiles.
The investigation revealed that workers of Miniature
Precision Components, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, who are
engaged in employment related to production of plastic
automobile components, meet the criteria as Suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers have been separated during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because Miniature Precision
Components provided plastic automobile components to a firm that
employed a TAA-certified worker group, to be used in the
production of articles that were the basis for certification.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Miniature Precision Components, with respect to the plastic
automobile components, supplied to a firm with a TAA-certified
worker group, contributed importantly to worker separations at
the Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Miniature Precision
Components, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, who are engaged in
employment related to production of automobile plastic
components, 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 Miniature Precision Components, Prairie Du
Chien, Wisconsin, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after January 15, 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 12th day of October, 2010

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