Central Union of Workers

CUT

Full name	Central Union of Workers
Native name	Central Unitaria de Trabajadores
Founded	1986
Key people	Tarsicio Mora Godoy, president Domingo Tovar, secretary general
Office location	Bogotá, Colombia
Country	Colombia
Website	www.cut.org.co

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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