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Conditions in the Depression-ravaged 1930s were ripe for the rise of unionism, and Ford Motor Company was the last of the Big Three to unionize. The turning point came on May 26, 1937, when Ford security men brutally beat UAW organizers at the Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn. Local 600 formed in 1938 and initiated a crippling strike at the Rouge Plant. The union's efforts produced a new contract signed in 1941, the year Ford became the last of the Big Three to sign a labor contract with the United Auto Workers.
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