It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

One of the biggest challenges in Louisiana is a lack of skilled workers in the technical trades. Companies complain about it all the time. And yet, many young people will tell you they can t find a good paying job, which is a reason so many of them leave after high school. For the past several years, the business community in south Louisiana has been focused on this dynamic. On this edition of Out to LUnch, Stephanie Riegel uncovers some promising developments in correcting this trend. Stephen Toups is Executive Vice President of Turner Industries, one of the largest and most successful industrial construction firms in Baton Rouge. Turner Industries was founded in 1961, and builds and maintains services in the heavy industrial sector. It has locations across the Gulf Coast, more than 11 thousand employees in the Baton Rouge area alone over 20,000 in total and more than 3 billion in gross revenues. Stephen has been at the company for more than 20 years. His dad, Roland Toups, leads the company as CEO and chair