DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,969

TEXTRON GOLF, TURF CARE AND SPECIALTY PRODUCTS
RACINE, WISCONSIN

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 sepa
rated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or
subdi-vision have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or
appro-priate subdivision have contributed importantly
to the separations, or threat thereof, and to the
absolute decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on April 9, 2001 in response
to a petition filed by International Union of United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers, Local 556, on
behalf of workers at Textron Golf, Turf Care and Specialty
Products, Racine, Wisconsin. The workers produced machined
components of turf care equipment and walk-behind greens mowers.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The petitioners alleged that the company is closing the
subject plant, expanding another company facility in North
Carolina to assemble there and replacing production at Racine
with purchased products from China and England. According to a
company official, all production produced at the subject plant
will be either transferred to another domestic company facility
or, in the case of machined components, outsourced from other
producers in the Southeast U.S.
Sales of turf care equipment and walk-behind greens mowers
decreased less than 5% in 2000 compared to 1999.
The company will permanently close its Racine facility and
transfer most of the production to another domestic company
facility.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Textron Golf, Turf Care and Specialty Products, Racine, Wisconsin
are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 29th day of May, 2001


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