[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 65732]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30455]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-36,481]
Wyman-Gordon Forgings, Houston, TX; Notice of Revised
Determination on Reconsideration
By letter dated September 7, 1999, the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (IAM), South Texas District
Lodge 37, requested administrative reconsideration of the Departments
negative determination applicable to workers of the subject firm.
The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination
issued on July 30, 1999, based on the finding that criteria (2) and (3)
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the Trade Act
of 1974, as amended, were not met for workers of Wyman-Gordon Forgings,
Houston, Texas, engaged in employment related to the production of
aerospace forgings and extruded products. The denial notice was
published in the Federal Register on September 29, 1999 (64 FR 52539).
The IAM asserts that the petition was filed for workers engaged
employment related to the work and the associated machinery being sent
to Mexico from Houston, specifically part numbers 732, 733 and 734
discs which were high volume items produced at the subject firm plant.
The Department has obtained new evidence showing that the sales of
aerospace products at the Houston plant have declined. Other new
findings on reconsideration show that the production of aerospace
products shifted from the subject firm plant in Houston are being
imported to the Untied States.
The IAM did not present evidence that disputes the Department's
finding that increased imports of articles like or directly competitive
with extruded products produced by the workers of the subject firm
contributed to worker separations.
The workers producing aerospace and extruded products are
separately identifiable.
Conclusion
After careful review of the additional facts obtained on
reconsideration. I conclude that increased imports of aerospace
products contributed importantly to the declines in sales or production
and to the total or partial separation of workers of Wyman-Gordon
Forgings, Houston, Texas. In accordance with the provisions of the Act.
I make the following determination:
All workers of Wyman-Gordon Forgings, Houston, Texas, engaged in
employment related to the production of aerospace products, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after
June 7, 1998 through two years from the date of this certification
are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of
the Trade Act of 1974, and
I further determine that after reconsideration. I affirm the
original notice of negative determination of eligibility to apply
for adjustment assistance for workers and former workers engaged in
employment related to extruded products at Wyman-Gordon Forgings,
Houston, Texas.
Signed at Washington, DC this 15th day of November 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Program Manager, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-30455 Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
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