DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-81,354

ALCOA, INC.
GLOBAL PACKAGING DIVISION
ALCOA, TENNESSEE

Negative Determination 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.
Workers of a firm may be eligible for worker adjustment
assistance if they satisfy the criteria of subsection (a), (b)
or (e) of Section 222 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), (b) and
(e). For the Department of Labor to issue a certification for
workers under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a),
the following three criteria must be met:
(1) The first criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(1) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2282(a)(1)) requires that a
significant number or proportion of the workers in the
workers' firm must have become totally or partially
separated or be threatened with total or partial
separation.

(2) The second criterion (set forth in Section 222(a)(2) of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a)(2)) may be satisfied in one
of two ways:
(A) Increased Imports Path:
(i) sales or production, or both, at the workers' firm
must have decreased absolutely, AND
(ii) (I) imports of articles or services like or directly
competitive with articles or services produced
or supplied by the workers' firm have increased,
OR
(II)(aa) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles into which the
component part produced by the workers' firm was
directly incorporated have increased; OR
(II)(bb) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles which are produced
directly using the services supplied by the
workers' firm have increased; OR
(III) imports of articles directly incorporating
component parts not produced in the U.S. that
are like or directly competitive with the
article into which the component part produced
by the workers' firm was directly incorporated
have increased.
(iii) the increase in imports described in clause (ii)
contributed importantly to such workers' separation
or threat of separation and to the decline in the
sales or production of such firm.

(B) Shift in Production or Supply Path:
(i)(I) there has been a shift by the workers' firm to a
foreign country in the production of articles or
supply of services like or directly competitive with
those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; OR
(II) there has been an acquisition from a foreign
country by the workers' firm of articles/services
that are like or directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers' firm; and
(ii) the shift described in clause (i)(I) or the
acquisition of articles or services described in
clause (i)(II) contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), defines
the terms "Supplier" and "Downstream Producer." For the
Department to issue a secondary worker certification under
Section 222(b) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(b), to workers of
a Supplier or a Downstream Producer, the following criteria
must be 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.

Workers of a firm may also be considered eligible if they
are publicly identified by name by the International Trade
Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in a category of determination that is
listed in Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e).
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(e), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) the workers' firm is publicly identified by name by
the International Trade Commission as a member of a
domestic industry in an investigation resulting in--
(A) an affirmative determination of serious injury
or threat thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) an affirmative determination of market
disruption or threat thereof under section
421(b)(1); or
(C) an affirmative final determination of material
injury or threat thereof under section
705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act
of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and
1673d(b)(1)(A));

(2) the petition is filed during the 1-year period
beginning on the date on which--
(A) a summary of the report submitted to the
President by the International Trade Commission
under section 202(f)(1) with respect to the
affirmative determination described in paragraph
(1)(A) is published in the Federal Register
under section 202(f)(3); or
(B) notice of an affirmative determination
described in subparagraph (1) is published in
the Federal Register; and

(3) the workers have become totally or partially
separated from the workers' firm within--
(A) the 1-year period described in paragraph (2);
or
(B) notwithstanding section 223(b)(1), the 1-year
period preceding the 1-year period described in
paragraph (2).

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on February 21, 2012 by the United Steelworkers, #309,
on behalf of workers of Alcoa, Inc., Global Packaging
Division, Alcoa, Tennessee. The workers' firm is engaged in
activities related to the production of coiled aluminum can
sheet.
The petition was filed on behalf of ten workers who were
members of another worker group which was previously certified
eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under TA-W-70,067
(which expired on June 18, 2011) and who were recalled by
ALCOA, Inc., and subsequently separated from ALCOA, Global
Packaging Division, Alcoa, Tennessee.
The petitioner alleged that the workers who are covered
by TA-W-70,067 are similar to those workers who are covered by
TA-W-81,354 ("All of the circumstances in place when they
originally lost their jobs remain the same.")
During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the petitioner and the workers' firm.
During the investigation, the Department received
clarification from the petitioner that the subject workers are
former workers of ALCOA, Inc. who are covered by TA-W-70,067
and who were recalled to work in the Global Packaging Division
of ALCOA, Inc, at the Alcoa, Tennessee location. Therefore,
the subject worker group covered by TA-W-81,354 consists only
of workers within the Global Packaging Division of ALCOA,
Inc., located in Alcoa, Tennessee.
With respect to Section 222(a) and Section 222(b) of the
Act, the investigation revealed that Criterion (1) has not
been met because a significant number or proportion of the
workers in Alcoa, Inc., Global Packaging Division, Alcoa,
Tennessee have not become totally or partially separated, nor
are they threatened to become totally or partially separated.
A significant number or proportion in a work force of 50 or
more workers is 50 workers or 5%, whichever is less. 29 CFR
90.2 With regards to the subject worker group, the number and
proportion of worker separations did not meet that threshold.
Finally, the group eligibility requirements under Section
222(e) of the Act, have not been satisfied because Criterion
(1) has not been met since the workers' firm has not been
publically identified by name by the International Trade
Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in an affirmative finding of serious
injury, market disruption, or material injury, or threat
thereof.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that the requirements of Section
222 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272, have not been met and,
therefore, deny the petition for group eligibility of Alcoa,
Inc., Global Packaging Division, Alcoa, Tennessee, to apply
for adjustment assistance, in accordance with Section 223 of
the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 25th day of June, 2012

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