DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-92,839

DURA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LLC
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
FURST STAFFING AND MANPOWER GROUP
INCLUDING WORKERS WHOSE WAGES WERE REPORTED UNDER
ATWOOD AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
STOCKTON, ILLINOIS

Amended 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 issued a
Certification of Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance on September 28, 2017, applicable to workers Dura
Automotive Systems, LLC, including on-site leased workers from
Furst Staffing and ManPower Group, Stockton, Illinois. The
Department’s notice of determination is presently pending in the
Federal Register.
At the request of an authorized representative, the Department
reviewed the certification for workers of the subject firm. The
workers are engaged in activities related to the production of
automotive seating mechanisms.
New information shows that some workers separated from
employment at Dura Automotive Systems, LLC, Stockton, Illinois, had
their wages reported under a separate unemployment insurance (UI)
tax account under the name Atwood Automotive, Inc. The separated
UI tax account for Atwood Automotive, Inc. is used for payroll
purposes only and is currently operating at the location
identified in the original determination.
The intent of the Department’s certification is to include all
workers of the subject firm, which has been identified as a
secondary component supplier to a firm that received a
certification of TAA eligibility.
Accordingly, the Department is amending this certification to
properly reflect this matter.
The amended notice applicable to TA-W-92,839 is hereby issued
as follows:
"All workers of Dura Automotive Systems, LLC, including on-
site leased workers from Furst Staffing and ManPower Group,
including workers whose wages were reported under Atwood
Automotive, Inc., Stockton, Illinois, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after April 25,
2016, through September 28, 2019, and all workers in the group
threatened with total or partial separation from employment on
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 13th day of November, 2017.

/s/ Hope D. Kinglock
__________________________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance


DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-92,839

DURA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LLC
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
FURST STAFFING AND MANPOWER GROUP
STOCKTON, ILLINOIS

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 April 26, 2017 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Dura Automotive Systems, LLC, Stockton, Illinois
(Dura Automotive Systems). The workers' firm is engaged in
activities related to the production and design of automotive
seating components. The worker group is engaged in activities
related to the production of automotive seating mechanisms
(such as second and third row seat recliners, suspension link
weldment, transmission selector stamping, hatch hinge, seat
slide mechanism, and cushion latch mechanisms). The worker group
includes on-site leased workers from Furst Staffing and
ManPower Group.
The petition states "Production is being moved by the new
supplier of the next generation of these seating components to
the Camslide manufacturing plant in New Market Canada."
During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the workers' firm and its major declining
customer(s).
Section 222(b)(1) has been met because a significant
number or proportion of the workers in Dura Automotive Systems
have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to
become totally or partially separated.
Section 222(b)(2) has been met because Dura Automotive
Systems 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)(B) has been met because the loss of
business with the firm that employed a certified worker group
contributed importantly to worker separations at Dura
Automotive Systems.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Dura Automotive
Systems, who are engaged in activities related to the production
of automotive seating mechanisms, 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 Dura Automotive Systems, LLC, including on-
site leased workers from Furst Staffing and ManPower
Group, Stockton, Illinois, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after April 25, 2016
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 28th day of September 2017.

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