"I feel very strongly that the practice of cash payments needed to stop, and I am very pleased that the union has made this decision," Mr. Berry said.
In a statement Tuesday, officials with the Cal State chancellor's office said the university was "pleased" with the union's vote to support the negotiated terms.
The survey of more than 36,000 of their subscribers found that consumers are significantly more pleased with credit unions, retailers and other "non-bank" credit card issuers than with traditional bank issuers.
It was the employers' refusal even to consider this costly demand by IG Metall that only last month seemed to be leading to the collapse of Mr Schröder's efforts to win more consensus among the "social partners".But the unions were pleased, too.
Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs Associationn, said the union was "extremely pleased" that the future of the railways was being discussed as part of Labour's leadership election.
Union insiders were pleased to hear a policy which appeared to reinforce the party's current policy of calling for the renewal of Trident.
Jim D'Avila, from the Unite union, said he was pleased 40 jobs had been saved but said too many were still under threat.
Executives were less than pleased to hear of a "Western Union of the Internet"–a tiny outfit named PayPal, which has 4 million customers for its digital payment and debit system.
I am very pleased that five civil service trade unions – First Division Association, Prospect, Prison Officers' Association, GMB and Unite – have given us their full public support for the new terms.
Daniel DiSalvo, an assistant professor of political science at the City College of New York and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said, "Up to now, the unions should be pretty pleased — the people that they've supported for the most part have done very well".
