10 THINGS TO WATCH OUT IN 2020 The year 2019 was a time of waiting. Waiting for big projects to come to fruition. Waiting to see how a key player in Michigan's business fabric recovers from a stroke. Waiting for the next shoe to drop — and the shoe after that, and so on — in the United Auto Workers corruption scandal. Here is a list of 10 things to watch in the coming year for which the waiting could be up. UAW fallout The United Auto Workers has faced a turning point whose outcome is still very much up in the air. The long-running federal investigation of corruption at the union has resulted in charges that have gone all the way up to the top, and rooting out what remains of that culture will fall to new interim President Rory Gamble. Now that the union has contracts with the Detroit 3 automakers sealed up after negotations that included a lengthy strike at General Motors, it has a big challenge in winning back the trust of its members, and its reputation. ...