DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,707

AG SIMPSON AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS
STERLING HEIGHTS, MICHIGAN

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 February 4, 2002 in
response to a petition filed by the International Union, United
Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers Of America -
UAW, Region 1 and Local Union 417 on behalf of workers AG Simpson
Automotive Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan. The workers at the
subject facility produced automotive bumpers.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The investigation revealed that the AG Simpson Automotive
Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan plant closed at the end of
2001.
The investigation further revealed that layoffs are
attributable to the company shifting production of bumpers to a
foreign location.
A petition for eligibility to apply for NAFTA-Transitional
Adjustment Assistance has been filed by the International Union,
United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers Of
America - UAW, Region 1 and Local Union 417 on behalf of workers at
the subject firm (NAFTA-5780).
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at AG
Simpson Automotive Systems, Sterling Heights, Michigan engaged in
employment related to the production of automotive bumpers, 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 June, 2002.


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