PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Employees of an Oregon-founded, Canadian-owned grocer are calling on customers to stop shopping from the business amid contract negotiations.

The “Don’t Shop Roth’s” campaign, spearheaded by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, urges people to boycott Roth’s Fresh Markets. UFCW Local 555 is currently pushing the chain to pay meat and deli department employees wages that are comparable to what similar workers are earning in nearby chains like Fred Meyer, Safeway and Albertsons, according to the organization’s Communications Director Miles Eshaia.

Roth’s debuted its first store in Silverton in 1962, and the business has since expanded to nine locations statewide. Pattison Food Group, a grocery and drug giant based in British Columbia, acquired the business

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