GE Workers in Alabama Launch Union Organizing Campaign

The logo of General Electric conglomerate at the site of its energy branch in Belfort, France, on Feb. 5, 2019. Vincent Kessler/Reuters

CHICAGO—General Electric Co.’s workers at a plant in Alabama said on Monday they have launched a campaign to form a union for better pay and job security.

The plant in Auburn, Alabama, employs 179 workers. It builds a fuel nozzle on the widely used LEAP jet engine which powers planes of Airbus and Boeing Co..