(FOX 5/KUSI) — Employees of a Starbucks location in the Serra Mesa area have voted to unionize, becoming the second location in San Diego to do so. According to Starbucks Workers United, the vote was unanimous among employees of the café on the southeast corner of Aero Drive and Murphy Canyon Road. ”Winning the union vote felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders, and winning unanimously felt like breathing fresh air for the first time,” reads part of a statement from Rhiannon Perez, a shift supervisor who has worked at the location for two of her three years with the company. The employees filed their petition to unionize in late February, with Starbucks Workers United saying at the time that the employees sought better protections on living wages, respect for racial and gender equity, and fair scheduling. Although 13 employees were listed in the filing and comprised of full-time and regular part-time baristas and shift supervisors (excluding all managers, supervisors and office staff), the final vote was 9-0. The location in San Diego is now the 46th in California to do so, and more than 550 across the country are unionized, according to Starbucks Workers United. ...read more read less