DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-74,618

YOUNG'S FURNITURE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
WHITESBURG, TENNESSEE

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 September 13, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Young's Furniture Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
Whitesburg, Tennessee. The workers produce exposed wood
furniture components.
The investigation revealed that workers of Young's
Furniture Manufacturing Company, who are engaged in employment
related to production of exposed wood furniture components,
meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the workers in the workers' firm have become totally or
partially separated.
Criterion II has been met because Young's Furniture
Manufacturing Company produced component parts that were
directly supplied to firms with TAA-certified worker groups,
and the components supplied were related to the production of
articles that were the basis for the certifications.
Criterion III has been met because the exposed wood
furniture components supplied to firms that employed TAA-
certified worker groups accounted for at least 20 percent of
the production or sales of Young's Furniture Manufacturing
Company.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Young's Furniture
Manufacturing Company, Inc., Whitesburg, Tennessee, who are
engaged in employment related to production of exposed wood
furniture components, 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 Young's Furniture Manufacturing Company,
Inc., Whitesburg, Tennessee, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after September
9, 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 12th day of October, 2010


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