[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 55051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23345]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-3721]


Rockwell Automation; Sheet Metal Fabrication Department; Euclid 
Plant; Euclid, Ohio; Notice of Revised Determination on Reopening

    By letter of July 28, 2000, Local 737 of the International Union of 
Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, AFL-
CIO (IUE), request administrative reconsideration of the Department's 
Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility To Apply for NAFTA-
Transitional Adjustment Assistance (NAFTA-TAA) applicable to workers 
and former workers of Rockwell Automation, Euclid Plant, Euclid, Ohio. 
The denial was issued on July 17, 2000, and was published in the 
Federal Register on August 1, 2000 (65 FR 46954).
    The IUE Local 737 presents evidence that the shift in production to 
Canada of the housing (cabinets) produced by workers in the Sheet Metal 
Fabrication Department, occurred in the early part of 1999, not 1998 as 
indicated in the Department's negative determination for the Rockwell 
Automation petition. Therefore, worker separations occurred within one 
year of the date of the petition.
    At the subject firm's Euclid, Ohio plant, the workers in the Sheet 
Metal Fabrication Department are separately identifiable from those 
workers at the plant engaged in employment related to wiring and 
testing of the final product, control cabinets.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on reopening, 
it is concluded that the workers of Rockwell Automation, Sheet Metal 
Fabrication Department, Euclid Plant, Euclid, Ohio, were adversely 
affected by the shift in production of sheet metal cabinets to Canada. 
In accordance with the provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, I make the 
following revised determination:

    ``All workers of Rockwell Automation, Sheet Metal Fabrication 
Department, Euclid Plant, Euclid, Ohio, engaged in employment 
related to the production of sheet metal cabinets, who became 
totally or partially separated from employment on or after February 
4, 1999, through two years from the date of certification, are 
eligible to apply for NAFTA-TAA under Section 250 of the Trade Act 
of 1974.''

    Signed at Washington, D.C. this 30th day of August 2000.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 00-23345 Filed 9-11-00; 8:45 am]
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