DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,766

YAZOO UNIFORMS
YAZOO CITY, 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 on August 6, 2001, in response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers at Yazoo Uniforms, Yazoo City, Mississippi. The workers are engaged in employment related to the production of hosptial scrub shirts and pants. Workers are separately identifiable by product.
The investigation revealed that production and employment at the subject plant decreased during the period under investigation, culminating with the closure of the facility on June 14, 2001.
The subject firm has replaced production of hospital scrub shirts and pants at the Yazoo City, Mississippi facility with hospital scrub shirts and pants produced abroad.

Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the investi-gation, I conclude that there was an increase in imports of articles that are like or directly competitive with those produced by the subject firm and 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 Trade Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers at Yazoo Uniforms, Yazoo City, Mississippi, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after June 23, 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 at Washington, D.C., this 5th day of September, 2001.


/s/ Edward A. Tomchick

Edward Tomchick
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance