I have been doing massage therapy for 10 years. Since moving to Portland, I have been fired from both massage jobs I have had - for being outspoken and engaging in workplace agitation and organizing.

The problems at my first job started when the new owners of the spa drew up an Intellectual Property Rights agreement, one which would give them ownership over all of the licensed massage therapists’ (LMT) “creative work.” The other LMTs and I objected to this. We demanded a group meeting to d... read more