After nearly 100 years together, General Motors and its long-time car-hauling partner Jack Cooper Transport are splitting up.
The break-up comes after intense contract renegotiations between the two companies failed to reach a new agreement about 11 p.m. Friday, according to the Detroit Free Press.
That means as of now, companies other than Jack Cooper will be hauling GM vehicles across America, including 2025 Corvettes built at the assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
GM spokesman Kevin Kelly confirmed the impasse in a statement to the Free Press: “We can confirm that Jack Cooper Transport management has informed us of their plans to unilaterally stop services to GM, effective immediately. In light of this material breach of their agreement and the ongoing and timely needs of GM’s business, we have no choice but to implement contingency plans with other providers. We do not anticipate any further disruptions to the delivery of our vehicles”
Both sides are blaming the other for the impasse, with Jack Cooper Transport CEO Sarah Amico releasing this statement: “General Motors also requested that certain services end as soon as Saturday morning, February 8, 2025. Given General Motors’ unilateral decision, Jack Cooper’s management and Board of Directors were faced with no choice but to take certain actions to protect its employees and other stakeholders. Jack Cooper remains ready, willing and able to negotiate with General Motors regarding a continued business relationship. Jack Cooper has made additional offers to General Motors and awaits its response.”
Amico says Jack Cooper and GM have been business partners since 1928 and it even won GM’s “Supplier of the Year’ award three times in the last 15 years.
Jack Cooper had sought to renegotiate its contract with no. 1 customer GM after Ford Motor Company, its no. 2 customer, had exercised its right to end a current contract with Jack Cooper, forcing the trucking company to seek higher rates from its remaining customers such as GM to remain afloat.
The Teamsters told the Free Press that the impasse between GM and Jack Cooper “does not mean the jobs of well-paid, union-protected Teamsters are leaving this industry.”
Spokesperson Kara Deniz added: “This is Teamster work. Hardworking Teamsters have loyally hauled Ford and GM vehicles for generations. That doesn’t end now. Our members in this industry follow the work under our national contract, regardless of who the employer is. The Teamsters will defend our work and our members in carhaul at all costs. No matter what contractor is working with companies like Ford and GM, Teamsters will ultimately be pulling the vehicles. Short-term agreements are being negotiated to permit other carries to briefly handle loads as Jack Cooper engages in its own negotiations with these carmakers. More permanently, the Teamsters are already securing new commitments with other employers in the space, ensuring our members continue to work under the protections of our national carhaul contract to preserve our historic work with Ford and GM.”
Avral Thompson, president of Teamsters Local 89, one of the largest Teamsters locals in the nation, confirmed that shipments of cars by Jack Cooper have been halted from GM at several plants, including Bowling Green Assembly, Fairfax Assembly in Kansas, Arlington Assembly in Texas, Wentzville Assembly in Missouri, and Fort Wayne Assembly in Indiana. Other National Motor Freight Traffic Association carriers have picked up vehicle shipments, he added.
Source:
Detroit Free Press
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Why is this in the “Marketplace/Buying and Selling” ? This is real news.
So they lost the contract with Ford and to make up for the loss of Ford revenue….. they decide to charge GM more to make up the list revenue difference!!! Hilarious and indicative of poor leadership!
With the business philosophy as shown above, Cooper shows it has POOR LEADERSHIP !!
Greed
That’s the world we live in
I think Jack Cooper is also operating under a bankruptcy agreement with the courts.
They are shutting down because of this and the loss of their Ford contract
Jack Cooper had union jobs, which meant the bosses had to pay them. Now, GM will be using sucker workers who are willing to work for less. Soon, they’ll be making Vettes in China. Thanks, Mary.
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