DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,202

CREIGHTON, INCORPORATED
REIDSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

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
subdivision have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or
appropriate 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 16, 2000 in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Creighton,
Inc., Reidsville, North Carolina. The workers were engaged in
activities related to the production of military shirts.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import products like those produced at the subject plant in North
Carolina during the relevant period.
The closing of the sewing department at Creighton, Inc.,
Reidsville, North Carolina, facility and the layoffs was related
to a business decision to transfer production to another domestic
facility in New York.
A petition for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment has been filed
on behalf of workers of the subject firm (NAFTA-4209). A
determination on that case will be issued concurrently with this
decision.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at
Creighton, Inc., Reidsville, North Carolina, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 16th day of January 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole

LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance