DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-74,631

GENERAL MOTORS COMPONENTS HOLDINGS LLC
LOCKPORT, NEW YORK

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 15, 2010, by the United Auto Workers, Local
686, on behalf of workers of General Motors Components Holdings
LLC, Lockport, New York (subject firm). The workers produce
automobile components parts. The workers are not separately
identifiable by product line. Workers of the subject firm
were eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
under TA-W-63,818 (expired September 25, 2008).
The investigation revealed that workers of the subject
firm, who are engaged in employment related to the production
of automotive component parts, meet the criteria as Suppliers
for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of workers at the subject firm were totally or
partially separated, or threatened with such separation.
Criterion II has been met because workers of the subject
firm produced component parts that are directly supplied to
firms that employed worker groups eligible to apply for TAA
and the component parts supplied are related to the production
of the articles that are the basis for the TAA certifications.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of General Motors
Components Holdings LLC, Lockport, New York, who are engaged in
employment related to the production of automotive component
parts, 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 General Motors Components Holdings LLC,
Lockport, New York, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after September 26, 2010,
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 22nd day of February, 2011


/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance