Closing Empire Spa Isn’t Protection — It’s Punishing Workers
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Closing Empire Spa Isn’t Protection — It’s Punishing Workers

The city’s strategy is simple: shut down Empire Spa for a year, slap steep fines on the owners, and ban the site from ever again hosting massage services. But this isn’t about community safety - it’s about erasure. When legal redress is unavailable, workers can’t enforce contracts, call the police, or demand respect. Instead, they vanish into the shadows.

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