DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,524

EVANSVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND
EVANSVILLE, 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 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 22, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Evansville Association for the Blind, Evansville,
Indiana. Workers at the subject firm are engaged in activities
related to the assembly of parts for refrigerators and
icemakers.
The investigation revealed that workers of Evansville
Association for the Blind who are engaged in activities related
to the assembly of parts for refrigerators and icemakers meet
the criteria as suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of the workers in the workers' firm have become
totally or partially separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of
Evansville Association for the Blind supplied assembled parts
for refrigerators and icemakers to a firm that employed a
worker group who is covered by an active certification and that
the parts for refrigerators and icemakers were related to the
production of top freezer refrigerators and residential ice
makers.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business by
Evansville Association for the Blind, with respect to assembled
parts for refrigerators and icemakers sold to the TAA-certified
firm, contributed importantly to worker separations at
Evansville Association for the Blind.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Evansville Association
for the Blind, Evansville, Indiana who are engaged in activities
related to the assembly of parts for refrigerators and
icemakers meet the worker group certification criteria under
Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a). In accordance
with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make the
following certification:











"All workers of Evansville Association for the Blind,
Evansville, Indiana, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after February 2, 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 7th day of April 2010



/s/Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance