The text analyses the Integration Programme, developed by the Workers Central Trade Union Organisation (CUT), within the context of the Programme of Professional Qualification (PNQR). It deals specifically with the way in which this programme was implemented by the Telecommunication Workers' Trade Union in Rio de Janeiro, focusing on the problem of telecommunications in Brazil and its repercussions on workers and on their representative entities. The contradictions inherent in CUT's option for the role of executor of a policy of workers' education, embodied in the National Programme of Professional Qualification (PLANFOR), implemented by the State under the hegemony of neoliberal inspiration are also discussed. The advances and limitations of the theoretical-methodological contributions of the Integration Programme to the education of adult and young workers are also dealt with, giving special emphasis to their potential.
primary and professional education for young and adult workers; trade union movement and education; theoretical-methodological foundations of education for young and adult workers