DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-39,340
C&D TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
POWER ELECTRONICS DIVISION
TUCSON, ARIZONA

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 29, 2001 and filed by the company on behalf of
workers at C&D Technologies, Inc., Tucson, Arizona. The workers
produced AC-DC and DC-DC electronic power supplies and
converters.
This investigation revealed that sales, employment and
production declined during the period of this investigation.
Production of AC-DC and DC-DC electronic power supplies and
converters has been transferred to Mexico.



Further findings of the investigation revealed that the
subject firm increased imports of AC-DC and DC-DC electronic
power supplies and converters.
Currently, there is a NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment
Assistance investigation for the workers of the subject plant.
The identifying number is NAFTA-4872.
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 AC-DC and DC-DC electronic power
supplies and converters produced at C&D Technologies, Inc.,
Tucson, Arizona, 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 C&D Technologies, Inc., Power Electronics
Division, Tucson, Arizona, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after May 17, 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 16th day of July, 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole

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