DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-95,639

ANDROID INDUSTRIES
2053 DIVISION
INCLUDING ON-SITE LEASED WORKERS FROM
FOCUS: HOPE COMPANIES, INC.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

TA-W-95,639A

EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS
WORKING ON-SITE AT ANDROID INDUSTRIES
2053 DIVISION
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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 February 4, 2020 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Android Industries, 2053 division, including on-
site leased workers from Focus: HOPE Companies, Inc. and
Express Employment Professionals, Detroit, Michigan (Android
Industries). The workers' firm is engaged in activities related
to the production of headliners, rear/front suspension, hub
and knuckler, and struts and related articles for various
automobiles.
During the course of the investigation, information was
collected from the workers' firm and the petitioner.
The worker group, with the exception of the on-site
leased workers from Express Employment Professionals, were
previously certified eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment
Assistance under petition number TA-W-92,926 which expired on
October 30, 2019.
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 Android Industries
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 articles that were the basis for such certification.
Section 222(b)(3)(A) has been met because the headliners,
rear/front suspension, hub and knuckler, and struts and
related articles for various automobiles produced by Android
Industries for a firm that employed a certified worker group
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or sales
of Android Industries.


Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Android Industries,
2053 division, including on-site leased workers from Focus:
HOPE Companies, Inc. and Express Employment Professionals,
Detroit, Michigan, who are engaged in activities related to the
production of headliners, rear/front suspension, hub and
knuckler, and struts and related articles for various
automobiles 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 Android Industries, 2053 division,
including on-site leased workers from Focus: HOPE
Companies, Inc., Detroit, Michigan (TA-W-95,639), who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after October 31, 2019 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;
AND,
All workers of Express Employment Professionals, working
on-site at Android Industries, 2053 division, Detroit,
Michigan (TA-W-95,639A), who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after February 3, 2019
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 31st day of March 2020.

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