In re the Claim of Wagner

Crew III, J. Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 21, 2003, which ruled that claimant was ineligible for a trade readjustment allowance under the federal Trade Act of 1974.

Claimant worked as a production assembler for Valeo Electrical Systems, Inc., a producer of automobile components, at its plant in the City of Rochester, Monroe County, until June 28, 2002. As noted in our decision in Matter of Burdick (Commissioner of Labor) (14 AD3d 832 [2005] [decided herewith]), Valeo, which had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and was in the process of moving its…