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Poor economic conditions were not the only thing the Big Three leaders had to contend with in the 1930s. The onset of the Depression led many workers to believe that unionization was the only way they could protect themselves from the companies and have some job security. The Roosevelt administration favored unions and introduced legislation to facilitate unionization. Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in 1935, which guaranteed the rights of labor and outlawed the heavy-handed measures the companies used to break up unions. The fledgling Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) and its offspring the United Automobile Workers (UAW) used the NLRA legislation to organize workers.
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