Abstract
This article aims to meet the work and health of public universities teachers under the Trade Union point of view. To this end, qualitative oriented research was done with the participation of members of the regional direction of the National Union of Teachers of higher education institutions of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Individual interviews were conducted with open-ended questions through a script of semi-structured questions. Regarding the analysis of the interview's material, was used the technique of ‘content analysis’, more specifically the thematic analysis, being identified five empirical discussion axes, which are: changes in the role of the university and the relationship with the state model; precariousness work in public universities; teaching work intensification and productivity academic; trade union action and workers’ health and necessary changes at work. At the end, a health conception was set, under the trade union point of view, which is interpreted as permanent collective emancipation movement, moving away from the meanings centered on individuals and in strictly biomedical approaches. It is a dialectical conception of health which comprises the life and work as a process, in constant transformation in history.
Keywords
working conditions; education higher; occupational health; faculty; labor unions