Several legislators from north Louisiana are upset with the Shaw Group’s decision to shut down a West Monroe pipe plant and lay off 200 employees, the (Monroe) News Star reports. State Sen. Mike Walsworth, R-West Monroe, who introduced a bill to loosen the state’s megafund to pay for Shaw’s expansions in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, was one of the legislators caught off guard. “It sure would have been nice to know that at the same time I was fighting for new jobs in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge that the company was cutting 200 jobs in my own backyard,” Walsworth told the newspaper. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret says he was also surprised by the layoffs. Moret says he asked Shaw officials to reconsider plans to shut down the plant at the end of June, but the company won’t change its mind. Read the story here.
North La. legislators upset with Shaw layoffs
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