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Target is facing a labor board investigation after an employee activist website was blocked from store servers and flagged for 'hate and racism'

Access to Target Workers United, an employee-created activist page, was restricted on servers in Target stores until Friday evening, a spokesperson for the retailer confirmed to Business Insider.were denied access last week because the website was classified as containing "hate and racism."

Jared Watson, a current Target employee in California, said he attempted to access the website on Thursday and Friday. He received the following error message when he tried to reach it on Thursday, and he received a different message on Friday that said the webpage could not load because of connection issues.Jared Watson

Edwin Egee, director of the office of congressional and public affairs for the NLRB, confirmed that the board is aware of the charge against Target and that an investigation is currently under way. The Target spokesperson did not confirm the name of the third-party vendor and said that the company had not yet been served with a charge from the NLRB.Target Workers Unite is an independent network of Target employees that works to inform other employees about labor rights at Target. The group recently released the results of a survey project that included the responses of over 500 Target workers across 44 states.

 

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