Workers at Seattle’s flagship Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Capitol Hill filed for a union election today, according to Starbucks Workers United. It is the 81st store in the country, and the fifth in the Seattle area, that has plans to unionize, joining a wave of Starbucks workers across the country seeking higher wages and better benefits.
As the first Starbucks Reserve Roastery — tourist attractions that offer tours and food and drinks not available at regular Starbucks stores, of which there are six worldwide — a successful unionization vote would be a symbolically important win for Starbucks Workers United.
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