DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,858

G & G SEWING MACHINE CO., INC.
DUNMORE, 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 July 22, 2002 in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at G & G Sewing Machine
Co., Inc., Dunmore, Pennsylvania. The workers produce sewing
machine equipment and parts.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.


The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import sewing machine equipment or parts during the relevant
period.
The Department of Labor surveyed the subject firm's major
customers regarding their purchases of sewing machine equipment
and/or parts during 2000, 2001, and January through June 2001 and
2002. This survey revealed no imports of sewing machine equipment
and/or parts during the period under investigation.
A petition for eligibility to apply for NAFTA-Transitional
Adjustment Assistance has been filed behalf of workers at the
subject firm (NAFTA-6433).
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at G & G
Sewing Machine Co., Inc., Dunmore, Pennsylvania, engaged in
employment related to the production of sewing machine equipment
and parts, are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 4th day of October, 2002.


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