I was in Boston the other day, and returned to my car to find a flyer under the wiper blade. The title read as follows:

Emerge massage parlor does not offer a happy ending…..

“Just ask the workers!”

My first reaction was, wow, this massage parlor has been getting all the wrong clientele and has taken a real aggressive and unorthodox approach to letting people know that it’s not that kind of massage parlor. The flyer continues:

Joyce Hampers of Emerge massage parlor hired Metric Construction who does not pay area standard wages or benefits to their employees. Without area standard wages or benefits, our community’s workers are barely able to earn a living and can’t provide health insurance for their families. Workers without health insurance have nowhere to turn when their children get sick. These cheap and greedy business practices are destroying American communities and their families.

Call Joyce Hampers or Emerge Massage Parlor
(XXX) XXX-XXXX
and protest the use of substandard contractors in their building. Tell the management that:

Our workers are NOT Second-Class Citizens!

So. what seems to have happened is that in the Back Bay of Boston, one of the most expensive communities in the country, a local massage parlor, or salon, or whatever it is, used a construction company that uses non-union labor, and the union labor is pissed. So they decided to smear the Emerge massage parlor (or give it undue publicity) by making it appear to be one of those kind of massage parlors. How quaint. The flyer concludes in fine print (emphasis mine):

A message from the New England Regional Council of Carpenters – Fighting for good jobs for our community. Please do not litter. We are not asking for any individual to cease performing any services, or refuse to pick up, deliver, or handle any goods.

No, of course not. Because then where would all the carpenters go to get serviced and have their goods handled.

Really now, weren’t they kind of asking for it by placing this type of flyer on strangers cars?

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