Marick Masters is a professor emeritus of business in the Department of Management and Information Systems at the Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University. Marick’s research and teaching interests lie in negotiations and conflict resolution, unions, business and labor political action, federal sector labor-management relations, human resource management and employee relations, workplace privacy and workplace violence.
Experts say there are two big reasons why union support is important to a political campaign: It's about money, and the unions' organizing power.
UAW's president Shawn Fain has signaled the key issues are still being worked out and the union and the companies are still far apart. Fain says close to 80 percent of what the union wants hasn't even been in the counter-proposals the companies are putting forward. Marick Masters, a labor expert at Wayne State, says the big three are struggling to catch up on electrification.