DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,791

BURLINGTON MANUFACTURING SERVICES
A DIVISION OF BURLINGTON TECHNOLOGIES
BURLINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA

TA-W-73,791A

SE7EN
A DIVISION OF BURLINGTON TECHNOLOGIES
GIBSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

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 March 25, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Burlington Manufacturing Services, a division of
Burlington Technologies, Burlington, North Carolina (TA-W-
73,791) and Se7en, a division of Burlington Technologies,
Gibsonville, North Carolina (TA-W-73,791A). The workers
produce and package dyed yarn (TA-W-73,791) and woven fabrics
(TA-W-73,791A).
The investigation revealed that workers of Burlington
Manufacturing Services and Se7en, who are engaged in
employment related to the production and/or packaging of dyed
yarn (TA-W-73,791) or woven fabrics (TA-W-73,791A), meet the
criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of workers in each of the two divisions have been separated
over the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because Burlington
Manufacturing Services and Se7en produced component parts that
were directly supplied to firms with TAA-certified worker
groups and the components were related to the production of
articles that were the basis for the TAA certifications.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
with the firms that employed TAA-certified workers, with
respect to packaged dyed yarn (TA-W-73,791) and woven fabrics
(TA-W-73,791A) sold to those customers, contributed
importantly to worker separations at Burlington Manufacturing
Services and Se7en.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Burlington
Manufacturing Services, a division of Burlington Technologies,
Burlington, North Carolina (TA-W-73,791) and Se7en, a division
of Burlington Technologies, Gibsonville, North Carolina (TA-W-
73,791A), who are engaged in employment related to production
and packaging of dyed yarn or woven fabrics 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 Burlington Manufacturing Services, a
division of Burlington Technologies, Burlington, North
Carolina (TA-W-73,791) and Se7en, a division of
Burlington Technologies, Gibsonville, North Carolina (TA-
W-73,791A), who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after March 17, 2009, through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the
groups 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 15th day of July, 2010

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