DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,959

RJR TRANSPORTATION, INC.
LATHROP, CALIFORNIA

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 April 19, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of RJR Transportation, Inc., Lathrop, California.
Workers at the subject firm are engaged in activities related to
freight transportation and logistical support services. The
workers are not separately identifiable by function.
The investigation revealed that workers of RJR
Transportation, Inc., Lathrop, California who are engaged in
activities related to freight transportation and logistical
support services 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 RJR
Transportation, Inc., Lathrop, California supplied and sold
freight transportation and logistical support services to a
firm that employed a worker group who is covered by an active
certification and that the freight transportation and
logistical support services were related to the production of
automobiles.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business by
RJR Transportation, Inc., Lathrop, California, with respect to
freight transportation and logistical support services sold to
the TAA-certified firm, contributed importantly to worker
separations at RJR Transportation, Inc., Lathrop, California.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of RJR Transportation,
Inc., Lathrop, California, who are engaged in freight
transportation and logistical support 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 RJR Transportation, Inc., Lathrop,
California, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after March 22, 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 15th day of June, 2010



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