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Johnson Controls and Canadian Auto Workers Reach Agreement

19 April 1999

Johnson Controls and Canadian Auto Workers Reach Agreement That Ends Brief Work Stoppage at Stratford, Ontario Plant

Production resumes less than 24 hours
after union workers take over facility

    PLYMOUTH, Mich., April 16 -- Automotive interior supplier
Johnson Controls has reached an agreement with the Canadian Auto
Workers (CAW) Union, Local 1325, that ends an illegal work stoppage.
Yesterday, workers at the company's Stratford, Ontario Canadian Fabrication
Products Ltd. plant locked the management team and workers out of the
facility. During the night, company and union officials reached a settlement
that called for the union to return to work immediately, and addressed certain
union concerns. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
    The Stratford, Ontario plant supplies seat trim covers used by
DaimlerChrysler's Bramalea, Ontario plant. Production at the Stratford
facility resumed this morning.
    "We are pleased that our customer did not lose any vehicle production as a
result of this event, and that our employees were able to quickly return to
their jobs," said Gregg Sherrill, vice president and general manager of the
DaimlerChrysler Business Unit for Johnson Controls.
    Sherrill said that Johnson Controls and the CAW had signed a new contract
for employees at the Stratford plant in January 1999. "Johnson Controls
continues to abide in good faith with the terms of this contract -- and we're
strongly committed to all conditions agreed to in January. We expect members
of the CAW to do the same, and we're shocked and disappointed by the union's
violation of the contract. We are prepared to put this incident behind us and
to move forward."
    The Plymouth, Michigan-based automotive business of Johnson Controls --
which employs more than 57,000 people at 275 facilities worldwide -- achieved
US$9.3 billion in sales for the 1998 fiscal year. In model-year 1999, it will
supply interior products for more than 22 million vehicles.
    Johnson Controls, Inc. is a global leader in automotive systems and
facility management and control. In the automotive market, it is a major
supplier of seating and interior systems, and batteries. For non-residential
facilities, Johnson Controls provides building control systems and services,
energy management and integrated facility management. Johnson Controls
, founded in 1885, has headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its
sales for 1998 totaled US$12.6 billion.

    CONTACT:  Bill Dawson of Johnson Controls, 734-254-5925.
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