Abstract
This article aims to identify and analyze the concepts of health present in teachers’ demands at the National Confederation of Education Workers, in Brazil. It is the result of a documental research carried out on the resolutions of congresses held by the labor union in the period from 1999 to 2014. Using content analysis of documents, references to health were classified in demands either of economic-corporative or ethical-political nature. The results of the documental investigation indicate that, besides a strict concept of health marked by corporative demands, there is also a broad concept of health. The demand for health under the perspective of a social right guaranteed through public policies may be a fertile pathway for the defense of health in its ontological sense, rather than as an economic factor understood as merchandise and sufficient to reproduce the workforce.
teachers; occupational health; right to health; labor unions