Target's new 'flow center' faces a union challenge

Target Corp. had hoped to test new strategies at its 718,000-square-foot warehouse in New Jersey, but a labor-organizing effort probably wasn't what the retailer had in mind. The Wall Street Journal reports on a union's effort to organize nearly 500 Target workers at the Minneapolis-based company's warehouse in Perth Amboy, N.J., which is part of Target (NYSE: TGT) efforts to speed up its supply chain to serve e-commerce customers. Organizers at Laundry, Distribution and Food Service Joint Board,…