DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,314

SOUTHER GLOVE MANUFACTURING CO, INC.
MOUNTAIN CITY GLOVE DIVISION
MOUNTAIN CITY, TENNESSEE

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 in response to a petition
received on May 21, 2001, and filed on behalf of workers at
Southern Glove Manufacturing Company, Inc., Mountain City Glove
Division, Mountain City, Tennessee. The workers produce knit and
woven work gloves. The workers were not separately identifiable
by product line.
The investigation revealed that sales, production and
employment declined at the subject plant in the relevant period.
The investigation revealed that company imports increased in
the relevant period.
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 knit and woven work gloves produced at
Southern Glove Manufacturing Company, Inc., Mountain City Glove
Division, Mountain City, Tennessee, contributed importantly to
the decline in sales or production and to the total or partial
separation of workers of that firm. In accordance with the
provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers of Southern Glove Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
Mountain City Glove Division, Mountain City, Tennessee, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after April 20, 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 9th day of July, 2001.

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