DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,411

JOHNSON ELECTRIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
JOHNSON ELECTRIC AUTOMOTIVE MOTORS
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI

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 June 11, 2001 and filed by the company on behalf of
workers at Johnson Electric Automotive, Inc., Johnson Electric
Automotive Motors, Columbus, Mississippi. The workers produced
windshield wiper motors and systems.
This investigation revealed that sales, employment and
production declined during the period of this investigation.
Production of windshield wiper motors and systems has been
transferred abroad.

Further findings of the investigation revealed that
customers of the subject firm increased import purchases of
windshield wiper motors and systems.
Currently, there is a NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment
Assistance investigation for the workers of the subject plant.
The identifying number is NAFTA-4919.
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 windshield wiper motors and systems
produced at Johnson Electric Automotive, Inc., Johnson Electric
Automotive Motors, Columbus, Mississippi, 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 Johnson Electric Automotive, Inc., Johnson
Electric Automotive Motors, Columbus, Mississippi, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after May 22, 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 30th day of July, 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole

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