Unite's vote was 82% in favour, while Equity and the Musicians' Union, which held meetings but not a ballot, also returned yes verdicts.
The judgment of the majority (two of the eight judges dissented saying that the case should not have been heard) was far harsher than the "yes, but" verdict that had originally been expected.
Do any of us have license to locate our personal disasters, raw as these may be, in Auschwitz?" Steiner's ambivalence, his "yes, but" verdict on "Daddy," is a characteristic response to Plath's work and to her persona.
True, there's not been a doctor's visit in years that hasn't involved a less than subtle scrutiny, and an "ah yes, perimenopausal" verdict, though what relevance this might have to a request for a typhoid vaccine is hard to say.
And they seemed to be raising the possibility that their decision would not be a straight yes-or-no verdict on whether to count contested votes.
But even so, the music industry might be the worse for having aired in court a question to which it has so far preferred to avoid obtaining a clear yes-or-no verdict.
"I think it was a tough verdict, yes, a tough verdict," Dame Pauline said, when asked about the Hutton report on BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
They took the device to the Apple store on West 14th Street to get an official verdict — yes, a manager said, it's a fake — and acquired a search warrant for the West 28th Street store where the police said the phone came from.
