Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik writes a daily blog appearing on latimes.com. His business column appears in print every Sunday, and occasionally on other days. Hiltzik and colleague Chuck Philips shared the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing corruption in the entertainment industry. His seventh book, “Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America,” published in 2020. His previous books include “Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age” and “The New Deal: A Modern History.” Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/hiltzikm and on Facebook at facebook.com/hiltzik.
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UPS management plainly knew what was at stake in a strike threat, and worked to reach a deal. What’s holding back the Hollywood bosses?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants us to know how slaves learned their trades in bondage, but he gets everything dead wrong.
Republicans are bowing to industry lobbyist in loosening state child labor laws. The inevitable result will be a rise in child deaths in the workplace.
The No Labels manifesto championed by the likes of Joe Manchin is composed of misinformation, naivete, misguided solutions and timeworn platitudes.
Column: By the standards of their peers, Hollywood CEOs aren’t all that overpaid. That’s the problem
By any reasonable accounting, Hollywood’s top executives are grossly overpaid. But striking actors and screenwriters should understand it’s not just their industry where CEO pay is out of whack.
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