Founded 1986 Country Colombia | Office location Bogotá, Colombia | |
Full name Central Union of Workers Native name Central Unitaria de Trabajadores Key people Tarsicio Mora Godoy, president
Domingo Tovar, secretary general | ||
The Central Union of Workers (CUT; Spanish: Central Unitaria de Trabajadores) is a trade union centre in Colombia. It was formed in 1986, and in 2002 was the country's largest union federation, with 546,000 members.
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.
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