DEPARTMENT OF LABOR


Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,890

CUTLER-HAMMER
POWER MANAGEMENT PRODUCTS CENTER
EATON CORPORATION
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

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 27, 2001 in response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers at Eaton Corporation, Cutler-Hammer, Power Management Products Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The workers produce electronic meters, protective relays and related communication and software products.
A petition for the NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance has been filed on behalf of workers at the subject plant (NAFTA - 5222).

This investigation revealed that sales and employment at the subject firm decreased in January-August 2001 as compared with the same period 2000. The investigation also revealed that in the relevant time period, the company increased imports of electronic meters, protective relays and related communication and software products.
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 electronic meters, protective relays and related communication and software products produced at Cutler-Hammer, Power Management Products Center, Eaton Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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 Cutler-Hammer, Power Management Products Center, Eaton Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, engaged in employment related to the production of electronic meters, protective relays, and related communication and software, who became totally of partially separated from employment on or after, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after August 6, 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 12th day of October, 2001.

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