text: Colgate to Cut Work Force, Close Plants  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer goods maker Colgate-Palmolive  Co. &lt;A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote"&gt;CL.N&lt;/A&gt; said on Tuesday it would cut about 12 percent of its  37,000-person work force and close one-third of its factories  worldwide as part of a four-year restructuring.