DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-74,926

ADVANCED URETHANE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
A DIVISION OF SLEEP INNOVATION
DUBUQUE, IOWA

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 November 24, 2010, filed by the United Steelworkers
(USW), Local 1861, on behalf of workers of Advanced Urethane
Technologies, Inc., a Division of Sleep Innovation Dubuque, Iowa
(Advance Urethane Technologies). The workers at Advance Urethane
Technologies are engaged in employment related to the production
of fabricated polyurethane foam for residential and commercial
seating, bedding for recreational vehicles, mobile homes, and
motels. The subject worker group does not include any on-site
leased workers.
The investigation revealed that workers of Advance Urethane
Technologies, who are engaged in employment related to the
production of fabricated polyurethane foam, meet the criteria
as suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers at Advance Urethane Technologies has become totally or
partially separated, or threatened with such separation,
during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because Advance Urethane
Technologies produced and supplied a component part to a firm
that employed a worker group eligible to apply for Trade
Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and the component part supplied
(fabricated polyurethane foam) is related to the article that is
the basis of the TAA certification.
Criterion III has been met because the fabricated
polyurethane foam that Advance Urethane Technologies supplied to
the firm with the TAA-certified worker group accounted for at
least 20 percent of Advance Urethane Technologies sales.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Advanced Urethane
Technologies, Inc., Dubuque, Iowa, who are engaged in employment
related to fabricated polyurethane foam 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 Advanced Urethane Technologies, Inc., a
Division of Sleep Innovation, Dubuque, Iowa, who became
totally or partially separated from employment on or after
November 30, 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 21st day of January, 2011

/s/ Del Min Amy Chem

______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance