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TAW-96303 / WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City) (Grove City, PA)
Petitioner Type: State
Impact Date: 06/16/2020
Filed Date: 09/23/2020
Most Recent Update: 02/10/2021
Determination Date: 02/10/2021
Expiration Date: 02/10/2023
Other Worker Groups on This Petition
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-96,303
WABTEC (GE TRANSPORTATION GROVE CITY)
LOCOMOTIVE DIVISION
AN OPERATING DIVISION OF
WESTINGHOUSE AIRBRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
INCLUDING WORKERS WHOSE WAGES WERE
REPORTED UNDER WABTEC US RAIL
1503 W. MAIN STREET
GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA
TA-W-96,303A
WABTEC (GE TRANSPORTATION GROVE CITY)
LOCOMOTIVE DIVISION
AN OPERATING DIVISION OF
WESTINGHOUSE AIRBRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
INCLUDING WORKERS WHOSE WAGES WERE
REPORTED UNDER WABTEC US RAIL
660 BARKEYVILLE ROAD
GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA
Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers
In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended ("the Act"), 19
U.S.C.§ 2273, the Department of Labor ("Department") herein presents the results of an
investigation regarding certification of eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance
("TAA") for workers.
The investigation was initiated in response to a TAA petition dated September 23, 2020
and filed on September 22, 2020 by a State Workforce Office, on behalf of workers behalf of
workers and former workers of WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive
division, an operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including
workers whose wages were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 1503 W. Main Street, Grove City,
Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303) and WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive
division, an operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including
workers whose wages were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 660 Barkeyville Road, Grove
City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303A) (TA-W-96,303A) (hereafter referred to as the "worker
group"). In accordance with 20 C.F.R. 618.110 a worker group is defined as, ""¦inclusive of
teleworkers and staffed workers."
The worker group is engaged in activities related to the production of locomotive, marine
and stationary engines and components and are not separately identifiable by product.
The petition alleged that worker separations, or threats thereof, were due to foreign trade
because, "Continuation of affects from Trade Pet 93797 under GE Grove City/WABTEC and
supply chain affects fro[m] 93917. WABTEC Erie has applied for new trade petition as well.
Layoffs continue, and work continues to shift offshore."
The worker group was previously certified eligible to apply for TAA under Petition
Number TA-W-93,797. The certification expired on June 15, 2020.
During the course of the investigation, the Department collected information from the
petitioner(s), the workers' firm, and other relevant sources.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm under Section 222(b) of the Act,
19 U.S.C. § 2272(b), are satisfied if the following criteria are met:
Employment Criterion
(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.
20 C.F.R. 618.225(d)(1)(ii) states that an "Analysis of separation data must generally
consist of a: "(A) Comparison of employment on the petition date to employment on the date
that is 1 year prior to the petition date; (B) Review of employment activity during the 1-year
period prior to the petition date; and (C) Review of evidence provided by the workers' firm
regarding actual and threatened separations that occur, or are scheduled to occur, after the
petition date."
The Department determines that the employment criterion has been met.
Supplier/Downstream Producer Criterion
(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 subsection (a), and
such supply or production is related to the article or service that was the basis for such
certification (as defined in subsection (c) (3)and (4)); and
Section 222(c)(4) of the Trade Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), defines the term "Supplier" to
mean "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 a group of workers
employed by such other firm."
The Department determines that the Supplier criterion has been met.
Contributed Importantly Criterion
(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
determined under paragraph (I).
20 C.F.R. 618.225(d)(5) states that the component parts supplied represented at least 20
percent of the supplier's production or sales during the 1-year period prior to the petition date,
or loss of business with the firm, during the 1-year period prior to the petition date, contributed
importantly to separations or threat of separation at the workers' firm." Sec. 222(c) of the Trade
Act and 20 C.F.R. 618.110 defines contributed importantly as, "a cause that is important but not
necessarily more important than any other cause."
The Department determines that the 20% criterion has been met.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the investigation, I determine that workers
of WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive division, an operating division of
Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including workers whose wages were
reported under WABTEC US Rail, 1503 W. Main Street, Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-
96,303) and WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive division, an operating
division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including workers whose wages
were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 660 Barkeyville Road, Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-
W-96,303A), who are engaged in activities related to the production of locomotive, marine and
stationary engines and components 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 WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive division, an
operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including
workers whose wages were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 1503 W. Main Street,
Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303) and WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove
City), Locomotive division, an operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake
Technologies Corporation, including workers whose wages were reported under
WABTEC US Rail, 660 Barkeyville Road, Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303A),
who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after June 16, 2020
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 10th day of February, 2021
/s/ Hope D. Kinglock
_______________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-96,303
WABTEC (GE TRANSPORTATION GROVE CITY)
LOCOMOTIVE DIVISION
AN OPERATING DIVISION OF
WESTINGHOUSE AIRBRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
INCLUDING WORKERS WHOSE WAGES WERE
REPORTED UNDER WABTEC US RAIL
1503 W. MAIN STREET
GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA
TA-W-96,303A
WABTEC (GE TRANSPORTATION GROVE CITY)
LOCOMOTIVE DIVISION
AN OPERATING DIVISION OF
WESTINGHOUSE AIRBRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
INCLUDING WORKERS WHOSE WAGES WERE
REPORTED UNDER WABTEC US RAIL
660 BARKEYVILLE ROAD
GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA
Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers
In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended ("the Act"), 19
U.S.C.§ 2273, the Department of Labor ("Department") herein presents the results of an
investigation regarding certification of eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance
("TAA") for workers.
The investigation was initiated in response to a TAA petition dated September 23, 2020
and filed on September 22, 2020 by a State Workforce Office, on behalf of workers behalf of
workers and former workers of WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive
division, an operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including
workers whose wages were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 1503 W. Main Street, Grove City,
Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303) and WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive
division, an operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including
workers whose wages were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 660 Barkeyville Road, Grove
City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303A) (TA-W-96,303A) (hereafter referred to as the "worker
group"). In accordance with 20 C.F.R. 618.110 a worker group is defined as, ""¦inclusive of
teleworkers and staffed workers."
The worker group is engaged in activities related to the production of locomotive, marine
and stationary engines and components and are not separately identifiable by product.
The petition alleged that worker separations, or threats thereof, were due to foreign trade
because, "Continuation of affects from Trade Pet 93797 under GE Grove City/WABTEC and
supply chain affects fro[m] 93917. WABTEC Erie has applied for new trade petition as well.
Layoffs continue, and work continues to shift offshore."
The worker group was previously certified eligible to apply for TAA under Petition
Number TA-W-93,797. The certification expired on June 15, 2020.
During the course of the investigation, the Department collected information from the
petitioner(s), the workers' firm, and other relevant sources.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm under Section 222(b) of the Act,
19 U.S.C. § 2272(b), are satisfied if the following criteria are met:
Employment Criterion
(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.
20 C.F.R. 618.225(d)(1)(ii) states that an "Analysis of separation data must generally
consist of a: "(A) Comparison of employment on the petition date to employment on the date
that is 1 year prior to the petition date; (B) Review of employment activity during the 1-year
period prior to the petition date; and (C) Review of evidence provided by the workers' firm
regarding actual and threatened separations that occur, or are scheduled to occur, after the
petition date."
The Department determines that the employment criterion has been met.
Supplier/Downstream Producer Criterion
(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 subsection (a), and
such supply or production is related to the article or service that was the basis for such
certification (as defined in subsection (c) (3)and (4)); and
Section 222(c)(4) of the Trade Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), defines the term "Supplier" to
mean "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 a group of workers
employed by such other firm."
The Department determines that the Supplier criterion has been met.
Contributed Importantly Criterion
(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
determined under paragraph (I).
20 C.F.R. 618.225(d)(5) states that the component parts supplied represented at least 20
percent of the supplier's production or sales during the 1-year period prior to the petition date,
or loss of business with the firm, during the 1-year period prior to the petition date, contributed
importantly to separations or threat of separation at the workers' firm." Sec. 222(c) of the Trade
Act and 20 C.F.R. 618.110 defines contributed importantly as, "a cause that is important but not
necessarily more important than any other cause."
The Department determines that the 20% criterion has been met.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the investigation, I determine that workers
of WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive division, an operating division of
Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including workers whose wages were
reported under WABTEC US Rail, 1503 W. Main Street, Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-
96,303) and WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive division, an operating
division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including workers whose wages
were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 660 Barkeyville Road, Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-
W-96,303A), who are engaged in activities related to the production of locomotive, marine and
stationary engines and components 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 WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove City), Locomotive division, an
operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies Corporation, including
workers whose wages were reported under WABTEC US Rail, 1503 W. Main Street,
Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303) and WABTEC (GE Transportation Grove
City), Locomotive division, an operating division of Westinghouse Airbrake
Technologies Corporation, including workers whose wages were reported under
WABTEC US Rail, 660 Barkeyville Road, Grove City, Pennsylvania (TA-W-96,303A),
who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after June 16, 2020
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 10th day of February, 2021
/s/ Hope D. Kinglock
_______________________
HOPE D. KINGLOCK
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance