A territorialização da luta sindical por políticas públicas no plano de carreira dos profissionais da educação na Rede Municipal de Xaxim (SC) 1994-2023

Abstract

This investigation aims to show related to the territorialization of union fight for public politics facing to career plans of education professionals from the municipal network from Xaxim (SC), during the period of 1994 to 2023, with emphasis in the Law construction 128/2013, under the view of Geography Work — a mark to the career of the municipal public from Xaxim. The trajectory of educational politics in Brazil reveals a history of devaluation of education professionals, marked by the appellant non compliance of the National Minimum Wage for Teachers by some states and municipalities. This neglect compromises the quality of teaching and the working rights of the category. In front of this scenario, the unions emerge as protagonists in the fight for fair career plans. Through mobilizations, negotiations and articulation with the school community, aim to guarantee professional appreciation and decent working conditions. In the research itinerary, we use the historical-dialectical materialism method, that makes it possible this space comprehension, with the existing contradictions. It was made a thorough analysis of the legislations elaborated between years 1994 to 2023, as well the before normative documents, that exerted direct influence in the organization and working activities of the involved subjects. This investigation permitted identify continuities, ruptures and actualizations on the legal marks that regulate the work, evidencing the impacts of those transformations over the professionals practices, the working rights and the act conditions of these workers during the considerate period. To the development of this study, it was used a qualitative approach, through case study. They were interviewed 30 subjects involved in the process of implantation and implementation of the career plan from the municipality of Xaxim (SC), with political leaders from that time and education professionals that live from this work, before and after the implantation of the Complementary Law 128/2013. The study over the historic context of the educational laws in the career plan of the education professionals in Xaxim (SC) reveals the trajectory of union fight against the precariousness of the teaching work and the devaluation of the category. The Complementary Law 128/2013 is presented as a legal mark that reformulated the career plan, product of the Union mobilization and the dialog with the school community, bringing advances as the additional for classroom management and academic training appreciation. However, it evidences contradictions between capital and work, in the articulations speech of the public service modernization, with the neoliberal legislations, as the replacement pedagogical autonomy by a technocratic model, aggravated by the outsourcing of the teaching materials as handouts and use of digital platforms that overload teaching work, in the bureaucratization process of education. In this scenario, the union acting consolidated itself as resistance force, reaffirming the public education as democratic practice, emancipatory and socially committed.