Cooperation on energy gave Noranda a fighting chance

Sunday, September 28, 2003

A key success of the legislative session we concluded in May was passage of a bill that allowed the Noranda Aluminum plant to keep its doors open as the Bootheel's largest employer. Noranda employs more than 1,100 of our people in our state's poorest region, mostly in high-paying union jobs where they are represented by the United Steelworkers of America.

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