This paper aims analyzing school public workers point of view in Rio de Janeiro, above all, essential changes on their work as well concerns towards the worker's health. This study assumes that working precariousness at schools has been producing (damaging) health effects on professional education. A methodological perspective qualitative research was adopted. Workers from twelve different schools with several functions on public education have participated in the study. It was conducted individual interviews by using a semi-structured script, carrying open questions. The "discourse analysis" was chosen for the speech technical analysis, achieving four main analysis categories. From the workers understanding perspective, there are the desire for transformation on physical work conditions in addition to changing on management model prevalent in schools for participatory mode, overcoming the vertical structures and hierarchical organization of school work.
Labor at schools; Workers' health; School workers; Working conditions; Changes in the workplace