Central Union of Workers | |
| Central Unitaria de Trabajadores | |
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| Founded | 1986 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Location | |
Key people | Tarsicio Mora Godoy, president Domingo Tovar, secretary general |
| Website | www.cut.org.co |
The Central Union of Workers (CUT; Spanish: Central Unitaria de Trabajadores) is a Leftist trade union center in Colombia. It was formed in 1986, and is the country's largest union federation, with 546,000 members.[1]
ICTUR reports that nearly 800 members of CUT were murdered between 1987 and 1992.[2]
In 2000 a past president of CUT, Luis Eduardo Garzón was awarded the AFL–CIO human rights award.[2]
- ^ American Center for International Labor Solidarity (2006), Justice For All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Colombia Archived 2010-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, p11
- ^ a b *ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.