DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-42,135

GB MACHINING
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

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 September 16, 2002 in
response to a petition filed by the company on behalf of workers
at GB Machining, San Jose, California. The workers produced
precision machine parts.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.


The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import precision machine parts during 2000, 2001 through the
closure of the plant.
The United States Department of Labor conducted a survey of
the subject firm's customers regarding their purchases of
precision machine parts during 2000, 2001 and January through
August 2002 over the corresponding 2001 period. The survey
revealed that none of the customers increased their imports of
precision machine parts during the period under investigation.









Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at GB
Machining, San Jose, California, engaged in employment related
to the production of precision machine parts, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 18th day of October, 2002.




/s/Elliott Kushner____________
ELLIOTT KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance