DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,529
AMETEK/PRESTOLITE
MOTORS AND SWITCH DIVISIONS
DECATUR, ALABAMA


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 January 9, 2001, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at
AMETEK/Prestolite, Motors and Switch Divisions, Decatur, Alabama.
The workers produced Bosh DC Motors (motor division), Solenoid
switches, Control Boxes and Contactors (switch division).

The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm did not import Bosh DC Motors (motor
division), Solenoid switches, Control Boxes and Contactors
(switch division).
Sales and production for all products increased prior to the
shift in production of some articles to Mexico.
A petition for eligibility for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment
Assistance has been filed on behalf of the same group of workers
at the subject firm, NAFTA # 4457.
Conclusion

After careful review, I determine that all workers of
AMETEK/Prestolite, Motors and Switch Divisions, Decatur, Alabama,
are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 12th day of April, 2001.
/s/ Linda G. Poole


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