DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-81,557

TE CONNECTIVITY
INDUSTRIAL DIVISION
MIDDLETOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

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(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), are
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
(1) 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;
(2)(B)(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/acquisition must have
contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation.

The investigation was initiated in response to a Trade
Adjustment Assistance (TAA) petition filed on May 1, 2012 by a
company official on behalf of workers of TE Connectivity,
Industrial Division, Middletown, Pennsylvania (subject firm).
The workers' firm is engaged in activities related to the
production of electrical connectors. The subject worker group
includes workers engaged in employment related to the
production of electrical connectors used in industrial
applications.
The subject worker group is limited to workers within the
Industrial Division of TE Connectivity located in Middletown,
Pennsylvania and is unrelated to other TE Connectivity worker
groups which are the subject of another TAA investigation.
During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the workers' firm.
Section 222(a)(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(a)(2)(B) has been met because the workers'
firm has shifted to a foreign country the production of
electrical connectors like or directly competitive with the
electrical connectors produced by the workers which
contributed importantly to worker group separations at TE
Connectivity, Industrial Division, Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of TE Connectivity,
Industrial Division, Middletown, Pennsylvania, who are engaged
in activities related to the production of electrical
connectors, meet the worker group certification criteria under
Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a). In accordance
with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make the
following certification:
"All workers of TE Connectivity, Industrial Division,
Middletown, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in employment
related to the production of electrical connectors, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on
or after April 27, 2011, 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 June, 2012


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