Greater Flint CAP Council

05/26/2026

Leiglative Update 5/26/26

05/18/2026

05/16/2026

We need our next AG to be on the side of MICHIGAN WORKERS! Eli is a proven fighter.

05/14/2026

05/09/2026

On this day in 1970, Walter Reuther, his wife May, and four others were tragically killed in a plane crash in Pellston, Michigan. Today, we remember Brother Reuther as a visionary and principled leader whose fierce commitment to the labor movement helped build a better life for countless working-class people.

05/04/2026

Legislative Update for May 4, 2026

04/24/2026

On this day in 1913, union activist Genora Johnson Dollinger was born. (April 20, 1913 – October 11, 1995)

Genora Johnson Dollinger was the founder and organizer of the Women’s Auxiliary and the Women’s Emergency Brigade during the 1936-37 sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint. These events significantly contributed to the union victory of the United Automobile Workers of America. Two documentary films, "With Babies and Banners" and "The Great Sitdown Strike," recount women’s heroic contributions to unionizing the auto industry.

Born in Kalamazoo, MI, Genora Johnson Dollinger was raised and lived most of her life in Flint, where her family had been early settlers of that city. After the UAW-CIO was recognized by General Motors, she became an organizer and secretary of Local 12, WPA, and Unemployed Union, UAW-CIO. Blacklisted in Flint she found employment in Detroit at the Briggs Manufacturing Company where she became Chief Steward of UAW Local 212, an all-women’s department in the company’s main plant.

As a result of her UAW union activities, Genora was severely beaten with a lead pipe while she was asleep in her home in Detroit. It was later revealed by Senator Estes Kefauver’s Investigating Committee that the Mafia, hired by corporate leaders, was responsible for this and other beatings of UAW officials and the shooting of UAW President Walter Reuther and his brother, Victor Reuther.

Genora devoted over six active decades of her life on behalf of labor, civil liberties, civil rights, women’s equality, opposition to the Vietnam War, and for the betterment of all humankind.

Read more about Genora Johnson Dollinger's life and activism:
https://ow.ly/Fqi150XNe6X

📸 Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs

04/21/2026

UAW Legislative Update 4/21/26