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Central Unitaria de Trabajdores de Colombia (CUT) is
Colombia's biggest trade union. It's official website is located
at <www.cut.org.co>
where you can see their flag: CUT letters in red, on a white
vertical banner. Their Coat of Arma is seen on the upper right
corner on their homepage. Another variants of the flag was
reported by Jaumé Ollé in 2004.
The CUT was founded on November 15-17, 1986, but it traces back
its roots to 1936. On August 7, 1936 the Confederación de
Trabajadores de Colombia (CTC) (Colombian Workers Confederation)
was established of Liberal and Communist tendencies. It adhered
to the Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina (CTAL)
(Latin American Workers Confederation (LAWC)) and later on to the
Federación Sindical Mundial (FSM) (World Federation of Trade
Unions (WFTU)). In May 1950 it breaks away from the
Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina and the
Federación Sindical Mundial by a guideline issued by the Partido Liberal Colombiano and
instead it addheres to the Confederacióin Interamericana de
Trabajadores (CIT) (Interamerican Workers Confederation (IWC).
Aside from the CTC, on June 12, 1946 the Unión de Trabajadores
de Colombia (UTC) (Colombian Workers Union) was established,
based on Christian ideas. On May 1, 1964 the UTC evolves into the
Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores de Colombia (CSTC)
(Colombian Workers Trade Union Confederation). This recently
created orgnization addheres to the Congreso Permanente de Unidad
Sindical de los Trabajdores de América Latina y el Caribe
(CPUSTAL) (Latin American and Caribbean Workers Trade Union
Permanent Congress (LAWTUPC)) and later to the Federación
Sindical Mundial (World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU))
becoming the foremost trade union in Colombia. Later on April 30,
1971 a dissident group within the UTC forms the Confederación
General del Trabajo (CGT) (Labor General Confederation) with
a Social Democratic-Christian tendency. The CGT
affialietes to the Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores
(CLAT)(Latin American Workers Central (LAWC)) and to the
Conferencia Mundial del Trabajo (CMT)(World Conference Labour
(WCL)).
Apart from these, other non-confederated trade unions in Colombia
emerge as well, being labeled as Non-Confederated Trade Tnions,
because they were trade unions specifically for a company or
representing an economic sector, some with National importance,
others with State and Local importance. Among them are FENALTRASE
(Transoprtation trade union), FENASINTRAP, FEDEPETROL (Oil
industry trade union), FECODE (Teachers trade union), SITTELECOM
(Telecom, the State's biggest telecommunications company before
being privatized), BANCARIOS (union of banks' trade unions),
gathering public education trade unions, state-owned companies
trade unions, bank trade unions, transportation trade unions,
health industry and hospitals trade unions, oil and energy trade
unions. Then on July 14, 1985, FENALTRASE promotes all
Non-Confederated Trade Unions togather around the CSTC, signed by
the following groups: Usitras, Asicun, , Sintraferrovías,
Sintraicollantas, Fecode, Sintrapopular (which comprised the
union of the following trade unions: Fenaltrase,
Fenasibancol, Fedepetrol, Cusi, Central Sindical Revolucionaria,
Festrac and the Uso). Then the Coordinadora de Unidad Sindical
(CUS) or Trade Union Coordination (TUC) was created, by: CSTC,
Confederated Trade Unions, UTC and CTC, to develop into bigger
trade union. Then finally on November 15-17, 1986, all of the
previously mentioned trade unions (UTC, CSTC, CTC and the
Confederated Trade Unions) merge to form the CUT.
Source: <www.cut.org.co>.
E.R., 3 September 2007
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Founded in 1935.
E.R., 3 September 2007
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It is the trade union of the Ecopetrol
company (Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos, Colombian Oil
Company), Colombia's biggest State owned company until 2007 when,
in a procces of privatization starting on August 27 and ending on
September 25, it will sell some of its shares to seek capital on
the market, on different stages onwards.
Jaume Ollé reported in 2004 also on another flag seen
here in a photo.
The USO was officially established in 1937, but it had been
active underground since early 1922. It has its own official
website at <www.usofrenteobrero.org>.
E.R., 3 September 2007
