DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,985

GRAPHIC ARTS CENTER PUBLISHING COMPANY
HAAGEN PRINT DIVISION
SANTA BARBARA, 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(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 April 23, 2010 by a company official of Graphic Arts
Center Publishing Company, Haagen Print Division, Santa Barbara,
California. The workers are engaged in activities related to
book publishing and printing and commercial lithographic
printing.
The investigation revealed that workers of the subject firm
meet the criteria for certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the workers in the workers' firm have been separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because the subject firm
has shifted book publishing and printing and commercial
lithographic printing to China and Canada.
Criterion III has been met because the shift in book
publishing and printing and commercial lithographic printing
by the subject firm to China and Canada contributed
importantly to worker group separations at the subject firm.




Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Graphic Arts Center
Publishing Company, Haagen Print Division, Santa Barbara,
California, who are engaged in activities related to book
publishing and printing and commercial lithographic printing,
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 Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company,
Haagen Print Division, Santa Barbara, California, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after April 21, 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 17th day of June, 2010


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