DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-42,091

DISA INDUSTRIES
HOLLY, 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 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 separated;

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

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or appro-
priate 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 9, 2002 in
response to a petition filed by International Association of
Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing, Iron Workers Local
508 on behalf of workers at DISA Industries, Inc., Holly, Michigan.
The workers produced foundry equipment. The workers were not
separately identifiable by product line.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm did not import products like or directly
competitive with products produced at the subject plant.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject
firm's customers regarding their purchases of foundry equipment
during 2000, 2001 and from January through August 2002. The survey
revealed that the subject firm's customers did not purchase foundry
equipment from foreign sources during the relevant period.
A petition for eligibility to apply for NAFTA-Transitional
Adjustment Assistance has been filed on behalf of workers at the
subject firm (NAFTA-6487).
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of DISA
Industries, Inc., Holly, Michigan 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 of January, 2003.
/s/ Elliott S. Kushner

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ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance