DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,921

GLENSHAW GLASS COMPANY
GLENSHAW, PENNSYLVANIA

Notice of Revised Determination
on Reconsideration

On November 30, 2001, the Department issued an Affirmative
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration for the
workers and former workers of the subject firm. The notice was
published in the Federal Register on December 26, 2001 (66 FR
66430).
The Department initially denied TAA to workers of Glenshaw
Glass Company, Inc., Glenshaw, Pennsylvania based on criterion
(3) of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended, not being met. Increased imports
did not contribute importantly to worker separations at the
subject firm. The workers at the subject firm were engaged in
employment related to the production of glass containers.
The Department of Labor investigated the allegations made by
the applicant that imports of glass containers contributed
importantly to the terminations at the subject firm.




The Department of Labor conducted a sample survey of the
major declining customers regarding their purchases of glass
containers during the relevant period. The survey revealed that
respondents increased their reliance on imported glass containers
during the relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on
reconsideration, it is concluded that increased imports of glass
containers, contributed importantly to the decline in production
and to the total or partial separation of workers at Glenshaw
Glass Company, Inc., Glenshaw, Pennsylvania. In accordance with
the provisions of the Act, I make the following revised
determination:
"Workers of Glenshaw Glass Company, Inc., Glenshaw,
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after March 12, 2000 through two years from
the date of this 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 February 2002.

/s/ Edward A. Tomchick

________________________
EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance


DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,921

GLENSHAW GLASS COMPANY, INC.
GLENSHAW, PENNSYLVANIA

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 March 26, 2001 in
response to a petition filed by the Glass, Molders, Pottery,
Plastics and Allied Workers International Union (GMP), Local 134
on behalf of workers at Glenshaw Glass Company, Inc., Glenshaw,


Pennsylvania. Workers were engaged in activities related to the
production of glass containers (jars/beer/wine/juice bottles).
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The preponderance in the declines in production and
employment at the subject plant are the direct result of the
company=s juice bottling customers switching from glass
containers to plastic containers during the relevant period.
The investigation further revealed that the subject company
did not import glass containers during the relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Glenshaw Glass Company, Inc., Glenshaw, Pennsylvania are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.


Signed in Washington, D. C. this 14th day of May, 2001.

/s/ Linda G. Poole
____________________________
LINDA POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance