DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,121

LATRONICS CORPORATION
LATROBE, 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
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 March 25, 2002, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Latronics
Corporation, Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The subject firm workers
produce casings and housings (hermetic seals) for semiconductors.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) was not met.
The subject firm did not import competitive products in the
relevant period.
Results of a survey conducted by the Department of Labor
revealed that none of the subject firm's domestic major declining
customers increased imports of competitive products relative to
declines in sales or production at the subject firm.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at
Latronics Corporation, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 3rd day of May 2002.
/s/ Linda G. Poole

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LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance