DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,585

SHOP VAC CORPORATION CANTON
CANTON DIVISION
A SUBSIDIARY OF SHOP VAC CORPORATION
CANTON, PENNSYLVANIA


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(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of the
Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(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 if either:

(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 shift/acquisition
must have contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation. See Section
222(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. §
2272(a)(2)(B)(ii).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on March 1, 2010 on behalf of workers of Shop Vac
Corporation Canton, Canton Division, a subsidiary of Shop Vac
Corporation, Canton, Pennsylvania (Shop Vac Corporation Canton).
The subject workers produce plastic molded parts used in the
assembly of vacuum cleaners.
The investigation revealed that workers of Shop Vac
Corporation Canton, who are engaged in employment related to
the production of plastic molded parts, meet the criteria for
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
or number of workers of Shop Vac Corporation Canton has been
totally or partially separated, or threatened with such
separation, during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been satisfied because Shop Vac
Corporation Canton has shifted to a foreign country the
production of articles like or directly competitive with
plastic molded parts for vacuum cleaners.
Criterion III has been met because the shift in
production to China by Shop Vac Corporation Canton contributed
importantly to worker group separations at the Canton,
Pennsylvania facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Shop Vac Corporation
Canton, who are engaged in employment related to the production
of plastic molded parts for vacuum cleaners, 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 Shop Vac Corporation Canton, Canton
Division, a subsidiary of Shop Vac Corporation, Canton,
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after February 26, 2009, through two
years from the date of certification, and all workers in
the group threatened with total or partial separation from
employment on 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 25th day of June, 2010


/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance