Central Union of Workers explained

CUT
Location Country:	Colombia
Full Name:	Central Union of Workers
Native Name:	Central Unitaria de Trabajadores
Founded:	1986
Headquarters:	Bogotá, Colombia
Key People:	Tarsicio Mora Godoy, president Domingo Tovar, secretary general
Website:	www.cut.org.co

The Central Union of Workers (CUT; Spanish; Castilian: 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.

In 2000 a past president of CUT, Luis Eduardo Garzón was awarded the AFL–CIO human rights award.^[2]

Notes and References

1. American Center for International Labor Solidarity (2006), Justice For All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Colombia, p11
2. • Book: 2005 . Trade Unions of the World . ICTUR . International Centre for Trade Union Rights . etal . 6th . John Harper Publishing . London, UK . 0-9543811-5-7.