Paul Graham once published an essay called "A Unified Theory of VC Suckage," and a speaker at an early YC event put up a slide titled "VCs: Soulless Agents of Satan or Just Clumsy Rapists?" YC has helped shift power to entrepreneurs by endorsing contracts that reduce V.C.s' stranglehold on a company's finances.
His case is enhanced by the fact that junior doctors' leaders endorsed the contract before consulting committee members.
"We are not going backwards; we are going forward," said Dr. Luis R. Marcos, president and chief executive of the Health and Hospitals Corporation board, just before yesterday's vote that endorsed the contract.
A five-and-a-half-year labor dispute involving Detroit's two largest daily newspapers was settled today when unions representing nearly 1,400 workers endorsed a contract, a group representing the unions said.
Though some union members mounted an opposition, accusing union leaders of selling them short, the majority argued that the contract was the best they could expect in a dismal economy; the 15 locals, which represent carpenters, electricians, prop makers and other skilled technicians, unanimously endorsed the contract.
Corbett, a Republican facing re-election, has endorsed the contract cancellation, as has Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (D) and school district Superintendent William Hite, reports The Associated Press.
Last week, the union's vice president at Chrysler, General Holiefield, spoke at meetings in Detroit and Delaware, while the union sent a letter to local leaders asking them to sign a memo endorsing the contract.
Guild brass met on Sunday to formally endorse the contract, and now the union's some 12,000 members will be able to vote on it on Tuesday.
The BMA had endorsed the new contract, not least since it secured pay increases of up to 20%.
The labor concessions at Revere, in a contract endorsed by the United Automobile Workers, are much like those unions are giving to other manufacturers.
In a statement, she thanked members of her union who endorsed the new contract in the face of what she called "potential retribution" by its opponents.
