Organização sindical docente e lutas (inter) nacionais em educação

Abstract

This study discusses how union organizations in education, National Confederation of Education Workers (CNTE), National Union of Teachers of Higher Education Institutions (ANDES-SN), National Confederation of Educational Establishment Workers (Contee) conceive and carry out union internationalization. This is an academic work of a qualitative nature, the research uses the dialectical contrastive perspective as a reference and having totality, mediation and contradiction as analytical categories. The investigation used two main methodological procedures: documental survey and semi-structured virtual interviews. The first procedure gathered documents available on the official pages of the three trade union organizations surveyed, as well as national and international entities with which it maintains affiliation. The second is an interview with the union leaders in charge of the internationalization policy: coordinators of the CNTE and Contee secretariats and the ANDES-SN internationalization officer. It is important to emphasize that the interviews were cited throughout the text, so that it was possible to dialogue with the analysis made from the information in the documents. The thesis also includes imagery texts from the official pages of the union entities surveyed. The study revealed that internationalization happens in different ways in the three entities in question, because the paths followed are related to the political and ideological perspectives of each entity, as well as the historical trajectory, the profile of workers that make up the organizations that, although are education workers, they have different working conditions. CNTE serves basic public education teachers, ANDES-SN is hegemonically formed by teachers from public universities and Contee by professionals who work in basic and higher education in the private education network. By contrasting these characteristics, we saw that each organization developed its own way of internationalizing itself. However, the survey revealed that all face challenges and limitations. At the international level, trade union organizations from different countries and continents, issues and immediate interests of articulation became evident, which prevents the exchange of experiences from being able to effectively promote solidarity. In part, international struggles take place with political limitations, even so, the study recognizes that the struggle for better working conditions and wages is an agenda of great legitimacy for the union movement. Digital technologies contribute to mediation to achieve internationalization, as well as mobilization in the streets of the world, as flags of internationalist unity.