DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-92,423

GE SOMERSET GLASS PLANT
A SUBSIDIARY OF GE LIGHTING
SOMERSET KENTUCKY

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 November 17, 2016 by the International Union of
Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-
Communications Workers of America (IUE-CWA), Local 83767 on
behalf of workers of GE Somerset Glass Plant, a subsidiary of GE
Lighting, Somerset, Kentucky. The workers' firm is engaged in
activities related to the production of pressed glassware
components for lighting products.
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 GE Somerset Glass
Plant, a subsidiary of GE Lighting, Somerset, Kentucky 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 finished
article that was the basis for such certification.
Section 222(b)(3)(A) has been met because the pressed
glassware components for lighting products produced by GE
Somerset Glass Plant, a subsidiary of GE Lighting, Somerset,
Kentucky for a firm that employed a certified worker group
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or sales of
GE Somerset Glass Plant, a subsidiary of GE Lighting, Somerset,
Kentucky.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of GE Somerset Glass Plant,
a subsidiary of GE Lighting, Somerset, Kentucky, who are engaged in
activities related to the production of pressed glassware
components for lighting products 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 GE Somerset Glass Plant, a subsidiary of GE
Lighting, Somerset, Kentucky, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after November 16, 2015
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 March 2017.
/s/Hope D. Kinglock
______________________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance