Opponents claim grocer employees illegally pressing ballot measure support
Fred Meyer store in Astoria (File/Daily Astorian)
SALEM — Opponents of a ballot measure to ban taxes on groceries contend that some grocers have illegally used their employees to distribute political material supporting the ban.
The “Vote No on 103” campaign claims in a letter to Oregon grocers that such conduct violates state law that prohibits coercing workers into employer-mandated political activity.
Major grocers, including Albertsons Safeway and Costco, have bankrolled the effort to prohibit…
