DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,894

HOFFMAN/NEW YORKER, INC.
DUSHORE PLANT
DUSHORE, PENNSYLVANIA

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 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. It is determined in this case that all of the
requirements have been met.
The investigation was initiated on March 26, 2001, and filed
on behalf of workers at Hoffman/New Yorker, Inc., Dushore Plant,
Dushore, Pennsylvania. The workers produce pressing equipment
used for the dry cleaning and laundry industry.
This investigation revealed that sales and employment
declined during the period of this investigation.
Further findings of the investigation revealed that the
subject firm is increasingly relying on purchases of pressing
equipment used for the dry cleaning and laundry industry from
abroad.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the investi-
gation, I conclude that increases of imports of articles like or
directly competitive with pressing equipment used for the dry
cleaning and laundry industry produced at Hoffman/New Yorker,
Inc., Dushore Plant, Dushore, Pennsylvania, contributed
importantly to the decline in sales or production and to the
total or partial separation of workers of the subject firm. In
accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following
certification:
"All workers of Hoffman/New Yorker, Inc., Dushore Plant,
Dushore, Pennsylvania, engaged in employment related to the
production of pressing equipment used for the dry cleaning
and laundry industry, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after March 7, 2000, 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 6th day of April, 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole

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