America's labour movement rumbled into life in May 1894 when Pullman car workers on Chicago's South Side began a famous strike. Now factories have all but vanished from the South Side. Across the country union power has waned. The neighbourhood of Pullman, however, once again finds itself at the heart of labour's latest war. Wal-Mart, the unions' arch-enemy from Arkansas, wants to open one store in Pullman and another five miles (8km) north in Chatham. Chicago's unions are ferociously fighting the invader.
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