The Labor Department has rejected aid packages for Abound Solar Inc. workers at the Colorado company in four locations, the Washington Times. Notices for three of the determinations were published late last week in the Federal Register. In each case, the Labor Department decided against doling out special government aid for workers who were displaced by foreign competition. While officials previously certified assistance packages for Solyndra workers, the Labor Department said that imports of products competing with Abound's products had not increased enough to make workers eligible for the aid. Though both were solar-panel makers, Abound and Solyndra made different products, even as their bankruptcies linked them in political headlines.
