Long v. Commonwealth

OPINION by

Judge Palladino,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (Board) which sustained a referee’s decision denying the claimant, Elizabeth Long, trade readjustment assistance (TRA) benefits under the Trade Act of 1974 (Act), 19 U.S.C. §2101 et seq. We affirm.

In May of 1978 the claimant lost her job at Erie Technological Products Inc. (Erie) because of a decline in the production of capacitors at Erie which resulted in part from increased sales of imported capacitors. In response to this situation the Secretary of the United States…