Impact of Plant Closures

Resolution Text

RESOLVED: Shareholders of United Technologies Corporation (the "Company"), hereby request that the Board of Directors create a committee, with members drawn from representatives of the employee workforce and management of the Company, to prepare a report regarding the impact on communities from the closure of Company manufacturing facilities and alternatives that can be developed to help mitigate the impact of such closures in the future. The report shall be prepared at reasonable cost and omit proprietary information, and shall be made available to shareholders on the Company's website.

Supporting Statement: In recent years, the closing of manufacturing facilities has become a significant social policy issue that has had a tremendous impact on our nation's economy and politics. The economies of local communities are adversely affected by manufacturing facility closings, and these plant closings are often associated with moving production to other countries. The resulting negative public attention from job losses can damage the corporate reputation of companies who close manufacturing facilities.

Our Company has received significant public attention in recent years for the closure of manufacturing facilities. For example, our Company received widespread media coverage for the closure of a United Technologies Electronic Controls manufacturing facility in Huntington, Indiana and the partial closure of a Carrier manufacturing facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. More recently, our Company's UTC Aerospace Systems has announced plans to close its manufacturing facility in Chula Vista, California.

Our Company's Chairman and CEO Gregory Hayes has personally signed the Business Roundtable's Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation (available at https://opportunity.businessroundtable.org/ ourcommitment/). This statement affirmed our Company's commitment to serve all stakeholders, including "investing in our employees" and "supporting the communities in which we work." We believe that honoring these commitments to our Company's employees and their communities is the best way for our Company to generate long-term value for shareholders.

For these reasons, it is imperative that attention be paid to the impact of plant closures on the communities in which the plants are located. This is particularly true given the close relationship between our Company and the communities where it has operated for many years. Establishing the proposed committee will be a first step toward understanding the impact of future plant closings, and the consideration of alternatives that can be developed to help mitigate the impact of such plant closures in the future.

We urge shareholders to vote "FOR" this proposal.

Lead Filer

Brandon Rees 2
AFL-CIO

Co-filer

Sabrina Liu
United Steelworkers*