Central Union of Workers

CUT
Central Union of Workers
Central Unitaria de Trabajadores
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Bogotá, Colombia
Location	Colombia;
Key people	, president ; , secretary general
Website	www.cut.org.co

The Central Union of Workers (CUT; Spanish: Central Unitaria de Trabajadores) is a Marxist trade union centre in Colombia. It was formed in 1986, and in 2002 was 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]

References[]

^ 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.

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[1] 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

[ICTUR-2] *ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.

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