Walmart rattled by growing unrest ahead of Black Friday's strike
As Walmart opens its doors earlier than ever for Thanksgiving
sales, it faces its first strike in 50 years by disgruntled
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Thanksgiving: members of Our Walmart are campaigning for reform
of the mega-chain's ultra-low-wage employment practices.
Photograph: Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters  On Friday, Americans by the
millions will crowd into big-box retail shops to take advantage
of bargains on wide-screen TVs and other electronics –
necessities, as well as luxuries – all marked down in order to
draw them in and have them line up outside in advance of the
doors opening. And now, as we've learned, several chains plan to
open at 8pm on Thanksgiving day itself.  The greatest irony of
"Black Friday", as it's known, is that it's seen as a
celebration of consumerism, instead of a sign of desperation:
when a Walmart worker was crushed to death by a Black Friday
crowd in 2008, the news was accompanied with mora