DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-80,531

PPG INDUSTRIES, INC.
AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
BELCAN AND AEROTEK
WORKING ON-SITE AT
GERNERAL MOTORS VEHICLE MANUFACTURING
SHREVEPORT ASSEMBLEY PLANT
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

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(b) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(b), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) 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;

(2) 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

(3) 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(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), 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 October 19, 2011 by a state workforce office on behalf
of workers of PPG Industries, Inc., Automotive Coatings
Division, working on-site at General Motors Vehicle
Manufacturing, Shreveport Assembly Plant, Shreveport,
Louisiana (PPG). The workers' firm is engaged in activities
related to the supply of chemical management services. The
subject worker group includes on-site leased workers from Belcan
and Aerotek.
During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the workers' firm and the petitioner.
Section 222(b)(1) has been met because a significant
number or proportion of the workers in such workers' firm have
become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to
become totally or partially separated.
Section 222(b)(2) has been met because PPG is a Supplier
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 is related to the articles
that were the basis for such certification.
Section 222(b)(3)(B) has been met because the loss of
business by PPG with the firm that employed a certified worker
group contributed importantly to threatened worker separations
at PPG.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of PPG Industries, Inc.,
Automotive Coatings Division, including on-site leased workers
from Belcan and Aerotek, working on-site at General Motors
Vehicle Manufacturing, Shreveport Assembly Plant, Shreveport,
Louisiana, who are engaged in activities related to the supply
of chemical management services, meet the worker group
certification criteria under Section 222(b) of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2272(b). In accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2273, I make the following certification:
"All workers of PPG Industries, Inc., Automotive Coatings
Division, including on-site leased workers from Belcan
and Aerotek, working on-site at General Motors Vehicle
Manufacturing, Shreveport Assembly Plant, Shreveport,
Louisiana, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after October 18, 2010, through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the
group threatened with total or partial separation from
employment on December 20, 2011 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 14th day of December, 2011


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