DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-74,755

OAK LEVEL FURNISHING AND REPAIR
MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA

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 25, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Oak Level Furnishing and Repair, Martinsville,
Virginia. The workers provide furniture furnishing and repair
services.
The investigation revealed that workers of Oak Level
Furnishing and Repair, who were engaged in employment related
to furniture furnishing and repair services, meet the criteria
as Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the workers have been separated over the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because Oak Level Furnishing
and Repair supplied services directly to firms with TAA-
certified worker groups, and the services supplied 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
by Oak Level Furnishing and Repair with the TAA-certified
firms, with respect to furniture furnishing and repair
services supplied to the TAA-certified firms, contributed
importantly to worker separations at Oak Level Furnishing and
Repair.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Oak Level Furnishing
and Repair, Martinsville, Virginia, who were engaged in
employment related to furniture furnishing and repair services,
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 Oak Level Furnishing and Repair,
Martinsville, Virginia, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after September 25, 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 11th day of February, 2011


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