DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,885

O.P. SCHUMAN AND SONS, INC.
WARRINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA


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 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:
(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 separat-
ed;

(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 March 4, 2002 in response
to a petition filed by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America, Local No. 155, on behalf of all workers at
O.P. Schuman and Sons, Inc., Warrington, Pennsylvania.
Workers are engaged in employment related to the production
of machinery used in textile production.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The investigation revealed that the subject company did not
import machinery during the relevant time period.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject
company's major customer regarding its purchases of textile
production machinery. The survey revealed no increased customer
import purchases of textile production machinery during the
period of sales and employment decline at the subject company.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of O.P.
Schuman and Sons, Inc., Warrington, Pennsylvania, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 29th day April 2002.


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