DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,788

CRANSTON PRINT WORKS COMPANY
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS & TEXTILE DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
ACCESS EMPLOYMENT OF RHODE ISLAND
CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND

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 25, 2010 by a state workforce office on behalf
of workers of Cranston Print Works Company, Corporate
Headquarters & Textile Division, Cranston, Rhode Island. The
workers supplied management, administrative, and sales services
to support company-wide operations. The worker group includes
on-site leased workers from Access Employment of Rhode Island.
The investigation revealed that workers of Cranston Print
Works Company, Cranston, Rhode Island, who are engaged in
employment related to management, administrative, and sales
services, meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the workers have been separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the workers' firm
has acquired from a foreign country articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the workers.
Criterion III has been met because the acquisition of
printed textile fabric from China, Korea, and Pakistan by
Cranston Print Work Company contributed importantly to worker
group separations at the Cranston, Rhode Island facility.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Cranston Print Work
Company, Corporate Headquarters & Textile Division, Cranston,
Rhode Island, who are engaged in employment related to
management, administrative, and sales services, 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 Cranston Print Works Company, Corporate
Headquarters & Textile Division, including on-site leased
workers from Access Employment of Rhode Island, Cranston,
Rhode Island, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after March 10, 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 1st day of June, 2010

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