DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,358

TOWER AUTOMOTIVE KALAMAZOO
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN

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 November 27, 2000 in
response to a petition filed by United Automobile Workers, #740, on
behalf of workers at Tower Automotive Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo,
Michigan. The workers are engaged in the production of metal
stampings.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm did not import metal stampings during the
relevant period.
Currently there is a NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance
investigation underway for the same group of workers at the subject
firm (NAFTA #4241). A determination on that case will be issued
concurrently with this case.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that workers of Tower
Automotive Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act
of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 31st day of January, 2001.

/s/ Linda G. Poole


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