#Erik Loomis

[the-cimmerians]

oh good job tumblr, not including the damn link which was the whole point of the post. Here is the article.

On August 22, 1945, five airline stewardesses, as they were then called, formed the Air Line Stewardesses Association, wanting a labor union to give them a voice on a demanding, difficult job where they faced constant pressure about their bodies, poor working conditions, low pay, and restrictions on marriage status and age.

The position of flight attendant began on May 15, 1930, when a woman named Ellen Church worked as what was then known as a “skygirl.” Women worked very hard and they had to look glamorous while doing it. They spent hours on their feet, dealt with drunk passengers, bent and reached and stooped over. A pedometer worn by one stewardess on a 1948 flight from Chicago to Miami showed she walked eight miles during the flight. The career itself wasn’t glamorous — but it had to look glamorous to the passengers. Rather than train the hostesses, airlines required them to pay for their own training with private services; at least one flight attendant paid $325 to a private school for stewardess training in Kansas City in 1948.

The sexualized nature of this work meant that woman had to uphold physical standards so that the real life versions of fictional Don Draper could enjoy their flight. There were strict requirements around height, weight, and appearance. The women had to remain single. Moreover, there was a forced retirement on your 32nd birthday. In other words, airlines used young women to sell sexual allure to male customers, and they were then expected to choose conventional lifestyles and marry. The 1951 film Three Guys Named Mike followed a flight attendant played by Jane Wyman around her adventures of love and travel until she settled down with one of the Mikes, a small-town science professor, where she could perform traditional duties of domesticity.

[thistle-nightshade]

The read of the day.

[Image ID: Chapter 2: Slaves on Strike. The Slaves Freedom Themselves/.End ID]

[Image ID: Book cover of "A History of America in Ten Strikes" by Erik Loomis. /.End ID]

[hotpinkboots]

[narmothewraith]

I don't condone murder (or other crimes) but they look great doing it and I love them :)

[myesmi]

hello! as a new horror slasher blog, i would love to see some requests in my inbox! come check me out!

here is where you can find the characters you’re able to request, and here’s information on how you can request in the first place! <3

[madamemaximoff06]

Me: “I’m not a slut”

fictional Villians/Serial Killers exists:

Me: “Okay maybe I am a little bit”

Characters in Order:

Billy Loomis (Scream 1)

Stu Macher (Scream 1)

Mickey Alteri (Scream 2)

Charlie Walker (Scream 4)

Bo Sinclair (House of Wax)

Jason (J.D) Dean (Heathers)

Habit (EverymanHYBRID)

Patrick Andersen (MLAndersen0)

Jack Torrance (The Shinning Mini-Series)

Kappa (Black Mirror)

Tate Langdon (American Horror Story)

Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow (Batman: The Dark Knight Trilogy)

Light Yagmai (Death Note)

Erik Destler/The Phantom of the Opera (Phantom of the Opera)

Mark Jefferson (Life is Strange)

Simon Kelleher (One of Us is Lying)

Joe Goldberg (You)

Brahms Heelshire (The Boy)

Valtor (Winx Club)

Josh Washington (Until Dawn)

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Morgan Stephens at Daily Kos:

As the election season reaches its fever pitch, labor unions are rallying behind their chosen candidates. The Teamsters, a national union representing 1.3 million workers in the transportation industry and many other sectors, announced on Wednesday that they have opted not to endorse any presidential candidate this year.  Teamsters president Sean O’Brien reacted to criticism by defending the decision not to endorse a Republican or Democratic candidate on CNN Thursday, citing the Donald Trump campaign’s refusal to support the PRO Act, which gives unions more power to organize. Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has already agreed to sign that bill into law. 

“This was not an endorsement for the Republican Party,” O’Brien told CNN. “This is a wake-up call that the system is broken.” But regional Teamsters have opted to go rogue. The 300,000-member West Coast Teamsters faction has thrown its support behind the vice president, signaling a strategic alignment with the Harris campaign. Ten other regional Teamsters councils have issued statements of support for Harris, including in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada. "Trump wishes your bosses could just fire you for challenging their authority with a strike. Never forget that. Trump wants to eliminate your legally protected right to challenge your employer and demand the dignity and respect all hardworking Teamsters deserve," said Rick Hicks, president of Teamsters Joint Council 28, in the division’s official endorsement of Harris. Prominent labor unions American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, known collectively as the AFL-CIO, threw their support behind the Harris-Walz ticket with an endorsement earlier this month.

[...] One thing is clear: It’s the Democratic Party that stands with labor rights activists—figuratively and literally. President Joe Biden was the first sitting president to walk a picket line in a show of solidarity with striking United Auto Workers, and has acquired the nickname "Union Joe." The Biden-Harris administration has been deemed a historically pro-labor administration, according to University of Rhode Island history professor Erik Loomis, who has authored three books on labor in America. 

Local and regional Teamsters unions have basically told Sean O'Brien to "go jump in a lake" with their backing of Kamala Harris.

[racefortheironthrone]

What are your thoughts on government intervention to end labor disputes in general? On one hand, forced settlements almost always favour management, and if management knows that the government will intervene, they have an incentive to stall negotiations and run out the clock, so to speak. On the other hand, some shutdowns will have far reaching negative effects on society as a whole, particularly if the strike involves the public service or things like railroads or ports.

In terms of my take on government intervention to end labor disputes, I'm fully in favor of procedural hypocrisy (or, as a philosophy PhD might put it, consequentialism) because the only question that really matters is whose side the government is intervening on behalf of. (This is where I'm going to make a massive plug on behalf of my colleague Erik Loomis' book A History of America in Ten Strikes, and in particular recommend his chapters on the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937.)

As a labor historian, I would say that as a rule, the state almost always intervenes in labor disputes at some level, whether it's the local cops and local government, the state militia, the U.S Army, or the courts. For most of labor history, the state has intervened on behalf of capital, and was broadly succesful in using its police power to crush strikes and keep the trade union movement economically marginal.

Where the union movement has been most successful is not when the state is neutral (because capital versus labor is not historically a fair fight between opponents of equal weight), but when the state intevenes on behalf of labor. So yeah, government intervention in labor disputes is awesome - when it's Governor Frank Murphy sending in the National Guard to keep the cops and the strikebreakers out of the plants in the Flint Strike, or the "Madden Board" NLRB enforcing the Wagner Act through the work of the Economic Division and the Review Division, or the National War Labor Board ordering Little Steel to recognize SWOC and agree to the union's terms.

Specifically on the issue of forced settlements, whether they're a good thing or a bad thing depends entirely on whose terms the settlement is made, which in turn depends on how labor law is written and enforced (and staffed). The whole reason why the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 mandates that "neither party shall be under any duty to accept, in whole or in part, any proposal of settlement made by the [Federal Mediation] Service" is because one of capital's biggest grievances against the "Madden Board" NLRB was that the Board's orders and settlement proposals had systematically favored workers between 1935-1947.

I think the numbers tell the tale - when the state was at its most "neutral" at the turn of the 20th century, union density hit a ceiling of 10% of the workforce. The only time that the labor movement broke through that ceiling was during WWI and then the New Deal, when the state shifted to supporting unions. And then when the state began to shift back in the direction of capital and labor law increasingly favored management, the union movement began to shrink.

This is why I always tell my students that the state is like a great stationary engine, and the only thing that changes is where that engine's power is being sent to. If you refuse to engage in electoral politics and only rely on direct action, the engine doesn't go away - it just gets harnessed by the other side and the power is used against you.

[all-hail-the-crows]

Babygirl ranking for slashers

🔪🖤🔪🖤🔪🖤✨🔪🖤🔪🖤🔪🖤

Extremely babygirl

Bo Sinclair

Norman Bates

Drayton Sawyer

Leslie Vernon

Lester Sinclair

Billy Loomis

Chop Top Sawyer

Mostly babygirl

Bubba Sawyer

Danny Johnson

Patrick Bateman

Billy Lenz

Stu Macher

Brahms Heelshire

Erik Destler

Martin Mathias

Jason Vorhees

Not babygirl

Michael Myers

Vincent Sinclair

Nubbins Sawyer

Freddy Krueger

[valyrra]

characters on which I obsessed over throughout my life (which I can remember rn/random list), kinda wip

Vittorio Scaletta, Lincoln Clay, Alex Mercer, Akande Ogundimu, Siebren De Kuiper, Junker Queen, Gabriel Reyes, Rammatra, Moira O'Deorain, Micah Bell, Dutch Van Der Linde, Vaas Montenegro, Alucard (Hellsing), Garrus Vakarian, Thane Krios, Liam Kosta, Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor/AC:3), Edward Kenway (AC:BF), Illidan Stormrage, Khadgar, Vol'Jin, Garrosh Hellscream, Nathanos Blightcaller, Lich King (Arthas Menethil), Alcina Dimitrescu, Caleb Quinn (Deathslinger), Carmina Mora (The Artist), Albert Wesker, Ghostface (Billy Loomis/Danny Johnson/Jed Olsen), Homelander, Billy Butcher, Trevor Philips, Johnny Silverhand, River Ward, Solomon Reed, Jackie Welles, Adam Smasher, TF2 Scout, Grand Regent Thragg, Omni-Man, Bi-Han, General Shao, Kano, Sareena, Lord Raiden, Kung Lao, Geras, Sindel, Havik, Quan Chi, Liu Kang (tbh the whole mk rooster), Benny Gecko, John Hancock, The Ghoul, Nick Valentine, Alan Wake/Mr Scratch, Kylo Ren, Gendo Ikari, Vincent Fabron (Chamber), KAY/O, Varun Batra (Harbor), Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez (Neon), Erik Torsten (Breach) (Valorant), Fuse, Octane, Revenant (APEX), Jhin, Draven, Swain (before rework tf), Victor (LoL), Troll Warlord, Invoker, Anti-Mage (Dota2), Vergil, Nico, V (DMC), Halsin, Wyll Ravengard, Minthara, The Emperor (BG3), Draco Malfoy, Ominis Gaunt, Sebastian Sallow, Natsai Onai, Miguel O'Hara, Saitama, Ryan Lucan (LiS: True Colors), Anders, Zevran, Dorian (DA), Azog the Defiler, Ichiban Kasuga, Zhao Tianyou, Kratos (GoW), Frank Woods, Ghost (CoD), Negan, Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex, Aemond Targaryen (HOTD), John 117 (Halo), Lash (DL

[katefaith18]

Here have this list of non-canon ships I like (MLM) 🤷🏻‍♀️

Stucky Steve Rogers × Bucky Barnes

Buddie Evan "Buck" Buckley × Eddie Diaz

Johnlock John Watson × Sherlock Holmes

Hannigram Hannibal Lecter × Will Graham

Thiam Theo Raeken × Liam Dunbar

Newtmas Newt × Thomas

Reddie Richie Tozier × Eddie Kaspbrak

Destiel Dean Winchester × Castiel

Lokius Loki × Mobius

JJPope JJ Maybank × Pope Heyward

Cherik Charles Xavier × Erik Lehnsherr

Byler Will Byers × Mike Wheeler

Grindledore Gellert Grindelwald × Albus Dumbledore

Jaaron Paul "Jesus" Rovia × Aaron

Lawrusso Johnny Lawrence × Daniel Lawrusso

Scorbus Scorpius Malfoy × Albus Potter

Steddie Steve Harrington × Eddie Munson

Stuilly Stu Macher × Billy Loomis

Merthur Merlin × Arthur Pendragon

[lovelymel]

𝓒haracter 𝓛ist + 𝓡equest 𝓘nfo !!

✧ ✧ ✧

i will write :: lgbtq, male + female + gn! readers, fluff, angst, smut, headcanons, drabbles, somewhat dark themes for horror characters

i won’t write :: big age gaps, incest, super freaky kinks, any stuff like that man 👽

✧ ✧ ✧

⏤͟͟͞͞ ✦ 𝓨oung 𝓙ustice :: season 1 & season 2

kid flash — wally west

impulse — bart allen

robin — dick grayson

superboy — connor kent

aqualad — kaldur’ahm

miss martian — m’gann m’orzz

artemis — artemis crock

⏤͟͟͞͞ ✦ 𝓧-𝓜en :: live action & ‘97

wolverine — logan howlette

cyclops — scott summers

magneto — erik lehnsherr

professor x — charles xavier

gambit — remy lebeau

storm — ororo monroe

phoenix — jean grey

⏤͟͟͞͞ ✦ 𝓑ASEketball

joe “coop” cooper

doug remer

⏤͟͟͞͞ ✦ 𝓞rgazmo

joseph “joe” young

⏤͟͟͞͞ ✦ 𝓑ill & 𝓣ed

bill s. preston esq.

ted “theodore” logan

⏤͟͟͞͞ ✦ 𝓢cream

billy loomis

stu macher

⏤͟͟͞͞ ✦ 𝓣he 𝓛ost 𝓑oys

david

dwayne

paul

marko

[thistle-nightshade]

"Solidarity is the answer for the future, which means sacrificing for others as they sacrifice for you. The extent that we will stand up for the rights of others, including at the workplace, will determine whether we will continue to see growing inequality and political instability in our world or we will see the world get better in our lifetimes."

A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis

[jigsaw-copycat]

The killers in Scream 4 should have been Jill and Robbie.

Charlie's motive was weak. One of the main themes of the film was fame and Robbie would have been a better reflection of that. He has his obsessively consistent livestream, he throws massive parties - the boy clearly wants to be known and liked. Jill could have used that to make killing sound like a good idea if they still wanted her to be the driving force of the spree. Erik Knudsen has a lot of talent and Robbie is an enjoyable character considering the scraps of screentime he's given. He could have made a really fun Ghostface.

The killers in Scream 5 should have been Richie and Vince.

It was honestly a travesty that Stu's legacy (not to mention the acting talent of scream king Kyle Gallner) was shunted aside in the first 20 minutes. I find it believable that Richie would seek out Stu's descendent and try to shoehorn himself in as the second coming of Billy Loomis by dating Vince. Their involvement would also eliminate the creepy age differences going on in that film on top of allowing Amber to be a genuine, caring, protective girlfriend to Tara without it feeling so damn insidious. Not to mention, it would open up the possibility of a fight between Sam and Vince - two descendents of serial killers who took their lives in very different directions after finding out. Could have been interesting to explore or at least acknowledge.

Anyway, this was a little rambly, it's just what I've been thinking about recently

[softearz]

𝑀𝐴𝑆𝑇𝐸𝑅𝐿𝐼𝑆𝑇. ౨ৎ

return to navigation! welcome to kathy's masterlist!

𝐸𝑉𝐸𝑁𝑇𝑆.

nineteen eighty nine — the anthology

𝐹𝑅𝐼𝐸𝑁𝐷𝑆.

rachel green. joey tribbiani. chandler bing. monica geller. phoebe buffay. ross geller.

𝐻𝐴𝑅𝑅𝑌 𝑃𝑂𝑇𝑇𝐸𝑅.

draco malfoy. harry potter. ron weasley. hermione granger. luna lovegood.

𝑀𝐴𝑅𝑉𝐸𝐿.

peter quill. peter parker. wanda maximoff. loki laufeyson. pietro maximoff. scott lang. natasha romanoff. gamora.

𝑿-𝑴𝑬𝑵.

wade wilson. peter maximoff. logan howlett. jean grey. kurt wagner. storm. rogue. hank mccoy. scott summers. mystique. charles xavier. erik lehnsherr

𝑆𝐶𝑅𝐸𝐴𝑀.

stu macher. billy loomis. tara carpenter. sam carpenter. quinn bailey.

𝑆𝑇𝑅𝐴𝑁𝐺𝐸𝑅 𝑇𝐻𝐼𝑁𝐺𝑆.

eddie munson. chrissy cunningham. robin buckley. nancy wheeler. steve harrington.

𝐸𝑈𝑃𝐻𝑂𝑅𝐼𝐴.

cassie howard. maddy perez. eliott.

𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝐴𝐿𝐿 𝐺𝑈𝑌.

colt seavers. tom ryder. jody moreno.

𝑀𝐼𝑆𝐶. 𝐶𝐻𝐴𝑅𝐴𝐶𝑇𝐸𝑅𝑆.

owen grady. willy wonka. jake peralta. karen smith. regina george. joe goldberg. guinevere beck. cady heron.

[deadguydeathmatch]

Welcome to the Dead Guy Death Match Elimination Round!

Due to the broad nature of death as a concept, most of the submitted characters only received a few votes each causing a massive tie. I figured the fairest way to sort out this issue would be to hold an elimination round to let you guys vote on who you want to make it into the bracket.

There will be two elimination rounds the first of which will start on Monday the 3rd of April at 3pm BST and the second will start on Saturday the 8th of April at 3pm BST.

Elimination Round 1 will feature polls of 5 or 6 unrelated characters (all of the matchups were generated randomly) for you to vote on. The lowest voted character will be eliminated and all of the remaining options will progress to the bracket.

Elimination Round 2 will feature polls of differing numbers of characters from the same or similar media and only the highest ranked character among them will progress to the bracket, all of the others will be eliminated.

Both sets of polls will last 24 hours.

I've tried my best to only include official images for all of the characters on the polls but I'm not familiar with every series listed so, when the polls go up, if you notice I've used a fanart or cosplay image without permission or credit please let me know and I'll add credit and correct it for any future appearances of that character.

The matchups are listed under the read more and hyperlinked to the polls

I apologise if I’ve accidentally spelled something wrong or used a wrong name for something, I’m not familiar with every series listed.

There will be spoilers for many series ahead.

Round 1-

Poll 1-

Leif- Bug Fables

Claire Foley- Professor Layton

Magne- My Hero Academia

Koki Kariya- The World Ends With You

Matsuri Kanroji- Demon Slayer

Tiso- Hollow Knight

Poll 2-

Polly Geist- Monster Prom

Beetlejuice- Beetlejuice

Kim Namwoon- Omnicient Reader’s Viewpoint

King Arthur- King Arthur

Chidi Anagonye- The Good Place

Duncan- Dragon Age

Poll 3-

Breakdown- Transformers

Varl- Horizon

Captain Orimar Vale- Skyjacks Podcast

Deep Throat- The X-Files

Connor Murphy- Dear Evan Hansen

Poll 4-

Catherine Earnshaw- Wurthering Heights

Johannes Cabal- Horst Cabal

Mr Boddy- Clue

Galivar Kholin- Stormlight Archive

Seth Gordon- All For The Game

Poll 5-

Jay Gatsby- The Great Gatsby

Billy Loomis- Scream

Esmeralda- The Hunchback of Norte Dame Novel

Kili- The Hobbit

Charles Vane- Black Sails

Poll 6-

Ned Stark- Game of Thrones

Hua Cheng- Heaven’s Official Blessing

Skelly- Hades

Nate- Levarage

Owen Carvour- Spies Are Forever

Poll 7-

Andre Grandier- Rose Of Versailles

Ash Lynx- Banana Fish

Jade Irinka- Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish Granting Engine

Hugo Oak- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Evelyn Hooper- Less is Morgue

Poll 8-

Pandora Hearts- Xerxes Break

Bow- Inanimate Insanity

Sam Cortland- Throne of Glass

Matoro- Bionicle

Tigerstar- Warrior Cats

Poll 9-

Deadman- DC Comics

Bunny Corcoran- The Secret History

Adam Faulkner-Stanheight- Saw

Tobias Tattersall Hawthorne- The Inheritance Games

La Signora- Genshin Impact

Poll 10-

Erik- The Phantom of the Opera

Diggory Graves- Hello from the Hallowoods

Max- Sam and Max

Nicholas D Wolfwood- Trigun

Pip Pirrip- South Park

Poll 11-

Pedro Madrigal- Encanto

Midori- Your Turn To Die

Charles Foster Kane- Citizen Kane

Rufus Emeterio- They Both Die at the End

Tuuri- Stand Still Stay Silent

Poll 12-

Manny Calavera- Grim Fandango

Howard Hamlin- Better Call Saul

Tanya McQuoid- White Lotus

Diallos Hoslow- Elden Ring

Sayaka Miki- Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Poll 13-

Meiji “Menma” Honma- Anoha: The Flower We Saw That Day

Chiyoko Fujiwara- Millenium Actress

Mari- Omori

Simon Karin- Pathologic

Lee Everett- The Walking Dead

Poll 14-

Rachel Amber- Life is Strange

Jason Grace- Riordanverse

Violet Harmon- American Horror Story

Vylad Ro’Meave- Minecraft Diaries

Chara- Undertale

Poll 15-

River Song- Doctor Who

Queen Serenity- Sailor Moon

Sliver of Straw- Rain World

Manny- Swiss Army Man

Mr Nobody- Transistor

Poll 16-

Shizu- Slime Tensei

Michael Afton- Five Nights at Freddy’s

Neil Perry- Dead Poet’s Society

Silhouette- Watchmen comics

Garret Jacob Hobbs- Hannibal

Poll 17-

Junpei Yoshino- Jujitsu Kaisen

Okudera- Yakuza 5

Shinichiro Sano- Tokyo Revengers

Yuri Nakamura- Angel Beats

Emily- Corpse Bride

Round 2-

The Owl House-

Flapjack

Caleb Wittebane

Star Wars-

Kanan Jarrus

Obi Wan Kenobi

Fives

Torchwood-

Owen Harper

Ianto Jones

Ace Attorney-

Mia Fey

Deid Mann

Critical Role-

Laudna

Mollymauk Tealeaf

Star Trek-

Jennifer Sisko

Spock

Tasha Yar

Hamlet-

Hamlet

Ophelia

Dracula-

Quincey Morris

Dracula

Marvel-

Loki

Tony Stark

Natasha Romanoff

Final Fantasy-

Haurchefant

Aerith Gainsborough

Ysale Dangulain

The Last Of Us-

Joel Miller

Sarah Miller

Riley Abel

The Vampire Diaries-

Nora Hildegard

Stefan Salvatore

Klaus Mikaelson

Avatar: The Last Airbender-

Avatar Kyoshi

Avatar Roku

Jet

Hatoful Boyfriend-

Nageki Fujishiro

Ryuuji Kawara

Black Butler-

Grelle Sutcliffe

Angelina Dalles

How To Train Your Dragon-

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock 2

Stoick The Vast

Les Miserables-

Gavroche Thenardier

Eponine Thenardier

Supernatural-

John Winchester

Castiel

Buffy The Vampire Slayer-

Jenny Calender

Tara Maclay

Arcane-

Silco

Vander

Infinity Train-

Tuba

Simon Laurant

Sally Face-

Sal Fisher

Larry Johnson

Ghosts-

Pat Butcher

Pete Martino