[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3354-3355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1466]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-33,767; TA-W-33,767G; TA-W-33,767H]


Fruit of the Loom; Martin Mills, Inc. D/B/A St. Martinville 
Mills; Including Former Employees of Jeanerette Mills St. Martinville, 
Louisiana; Jackson Distribution Center; Division of Sherman Warehouse 
Corporation Jackson, Mississippi; Wadesboro Warehouse; Division of 
Martin Mills, Incorporated Wadesboro, North Carolina; Amended 
Certification Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment 
Assistance

    In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC 
2273) the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Certification 
Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance on 
August 29, 1997, applicable to workers of Fruit of the Loom, Martin 
Mills, Inc., located in St. Martinville, Louisiana. The notice was 
published in the Federal Register on September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51152). 
The certification was amended on September 14, 1997 and again on 
December 1, 1997, to include Martin Mills, Incorporated in St. 
Martinville, Louisiana is doing business as St. Martinville Mills, and 
to cover the workers of the subject firm whose wages were reported 
under the separate Unemployment Insurance tax account

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for Jeanerette Mills, Jeanerette, Louisiana.
    The notices of amended certifications were published in the Federal 
Register on September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51155) and December 10, 1997 (62 
FR 65099) respectively.
    At the request of the company, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. The company reports that 
worker separations occurred at the Jackson Distribution Center, 
Jackson, Mississippi and the Wadesboro Warehouse, Wadesboro, North 
Carolina when they both closed in November 1997. The workers at both 
the Jackson Distribution Center and the Wadesboro Warehouse were 
involved in the warehouse, repacking and distribution of T-shirts, 
briefs, boxers and A-shirts manufactured by Fruit of the Loom.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of Fruit of the Loom adversely affected by increased imports of 
underwear.
    The amended notice applicable to A-AW-33,767 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of Fruit of the Loom, Martin Mills, Inc., doing 
business as St. Martinville Mills, including former employees of 
Jeanerette Mills, St. Martinville, Louisiana (TA-W-33,767) and 
Jackson Distribution Center, Division of Sherman Warehouse 
Corporation, Jackson, Mississippi (TA-W-33,767G) and Wadesboro 
Warehouse Warehouse, Division of Martin Mills, Incorporated, 
Wadesboro, North Carolina (TA-W-33,767H), who became totally or 
partially separated from employment on or after August 14, 1996, are 
eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the 
Trade Act of 1974.

    Signed in Washington, D.C. this 11th day of January 1998.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 98-1466 Filed 1-21-98; 8:45 am]
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