SEATTLE — A mile away from the flagship location where Starbucks launched in Seattle 50 years ago, a small group of local Starbucks employees huddled around an iPad under the bright lights of a hotel conference room and watched as they became the only unionized company-owned store in town.
"Unanimous!" they shouted, hands clasped in the air.
The vote, which the National Labor Relations Board announced Tuesday, is an especially symbolic win in the coffee giant's hometown as Howard Schultz returns as interim chief executive officer and workers at say they want to unionize.
