Central Union of Workers


The Central Union of Workers 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.