DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,142

BUSH BROTHERS & COMPANY
BLYTHEVILLE, ARKANSAS


Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (P. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents
the results of an investigation regarding certification of eligi-
bility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Act must be met:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision thereof,
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or ap-
propriate subdivision have contributed importantly to the
separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on October 2, 2000, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Bush Brothers
& Company, Blytheville, Arkansas. The workers produced canned
vegetables (prepared beans).
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm does not import canned vegetables (prepared
beans).
No customer survey was done regarding customer imports because
there are no declining customers to survey.
The closing of the subject facility is the result of a
domestic consolidation.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Bush
Brothers & Company, Blytheville, Arkansas, are denied eligibility
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 4th day of June 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole
_____________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer
Division of Trade Adjustment
Assistance