DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,071

PTC ALLIANCE
DARLINGTON, OHIO

Negative Determination 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 eligibility 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:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers in the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision thereof, have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or subdivision have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles produced by the firm or appropriate subdivision have contributed importantly to the separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on September 23, 2001 in response to a petition filed by the United Steelworkers of America, Local 9305-05, on behalf of workers at PTC Alliance, Darlington, Ohio. The workers produce steel tubular hollows.



The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been met.
Steel tubular hollows are not being imported by PTC Alliance.
The tubular hollows require further processing to become cold drawn tubular products. The Darlington plant ships tubular hollows exclusively internally to other PTC Alliance plants. None of them is currently under certification for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of PTC Alliance, Darlington, Ohio, are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 14th day of January, 2002


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