After announcing their plans to unionize in the spring, workers at the Starbucks on Middlesound Loop Road in Wilmington have voted to unionize this week. WHQR interviewed union co-organizer Haya Odeh about their successful vote.
Wilmington city council may vote next month to give unused land to build non-profit permanent supportive housing for homeless people. Good Shepherd Center said this would be a key step in housing Wilmington’s most vulnerable residents.
On this episode, Rachel Keith goes in-depth on teacher salaries and the teaching of Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre in history classes. Then, Kelly Kenoyer breaks down her reporting on a property owner city officials call a "slumlord." And, Abdul Hafeedh Bin Abdullah, co-founder and director of Sokoto House, explains the mission of the Community Health Workers.
At Wilmington’s Tuesday city council meeting, council members raked a landlord over the coals for being a "slumlord,” and ordered two of his buildings be repaired or torn down.
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