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June 20: Ford signs its first pact with the UAW on this date in 1941

Henry Ford was famed for doubling his factory workers' pay in 1914 and hiring minorities other companies turned away. But he often wanted a say in how workers lived their lives -- and when the United Auto Workers won its first contracts with General Motors and Chrysler in 1937, Ford vowed never to bend, using a thug named Harry Bennett to spy on, intimidate and occasionally attack union organizers.