DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,171

LEAR CORPORATION
LEAR ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL DIVISION
TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN

Certification 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
eligibility 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. It is determined in this case that all of the
requirements have been met.
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
received on October 2, 2000, and filed by the United Auto Workers
Union, Region 1D. on behalf of workers producing terminal block
assemblies for multifunction turn signals at Lear Corporation,
Traverse City, Michigan.
A petition for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment has been filed on
behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA - 4163). A determina-
tion on that petition will be made concurrently with this decision.


The investigation has revealed that the subject firm has
increased its reliance on imported block assemblies for turn
signals while curtailing the output of that product at the subject
plant.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I conclude that increases of imports of articles
like or directly competitive with block assemblies for turn signals
produced at Lear Corporation, Lear Electronics & Electrical
Division, Traverse City, Michigan contributed importantly to the
decline in sales or production and to the total or partial
separation of workers of that firm. In accordance with the
provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers of Lear Corporation, Lear Electronics &
Electrical Division, Traverse City, Michigan, producing
terminal block assemblies for multifunction turn signals who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after September 20, 1999, through two years from the date of
certification are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance
under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974."
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 19th day of October, 2000.
/s/ Linda G. Poole
______________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance