A trajetória sindical dos trabalhadores da educação em Alagoas

Abstract

The present thesis records and analyzes the trajectory of the union movement in education during the rise of neoliberalism in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. In historical terms, the analysis covers the events between the 1985s with the Brazilian redemocratization and the 2010s. The course of these historical events was reconstructed by means of official documents, reports, photographs, annals of congresses, bulletins, newspapers, and mainly semi-structured interviews with some of the figures who experienced these events. Essential issues are discussed regarding this political and organizational stage of education workers, distributed in the analytical categories of professional appreciation, union politicization and action strategies, in which subjects as neoliberalism, union movement, Career Action Plan, democratic management, Pact for Education, and curriculum were analyzed based on these categories. A central issue provided by the present study analyzes the legal constitution of the Union of Education Workers of Alagoas (Sinteal) as the representative body of civil servants through the strengthening of neoliberal ideology and the failure of public policies throughout the state governments in the corresponding historical period. In order to understand the role and importance of the union movement, analyses of authors such as Antunes (1982; 1986; 1991; 1995; 2008), Boito Jr. (2005; 2009), Bruno (1990), Giannotti (2007) and Vieira (2009) were used. Also, discussions on the economic reality of the state of Alagoas came from analytical reflections by Albuquerque (2009), Carvalho (2008; 2009) and Lira (1997; 2007). In addition, the criticism to the neoliberal model was attested in some theoretical reflections by Mészáros (2002). In the final considerations, the initially formulated hypotheses were reconsidered and compared with the research data analyses, evidencing the influence of the neoliberal model of the political and economic conjunctures concerning the directions of the union movement.