A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL: Education workers in Belo Horizonte approve continuation of strike. Full support for the mobilization! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Workers in the municipal education network of Belo Horizonte have been 
on strike since April 27th. They denounce a veritable "blackout" in the 
functioning of schools and the network as a whole. In the largest 
assembly since the beginning of the movement, this Thursday, the 14th, 
the category decided to continue the strike. --- The Belo Horizonte 
Education Secretariat has been in crisis for quite some time. The 
previous secretary, Bruno Barral, is under investigation for 
embezzlement of funds in the Salvador Education Secretariat, a fact that 
motivated his removal, by order of the Supreme Federal Court, from the 
position in the capital of Minas Gerais.

The Sind-Rede/BH, the union representing the category, denounces the 
lack of teachers in early childhood education and elementary school, in 
addition to the poor quality of teaching materials and school uniforms.

The most glaring situation is the dismantling of the full-time early 
childhood education program, offered to children up to five years of 
age, which relies on the work of teachers with adequate professional 
training, hired through competitive examinations and holding their 
positions. The Secretary of Education, Nathalia Araujo, has been 
undermining this stage of school education by establishing a model of 
shifts and after-school programs, which involves hiring people without 
adequate training and without public competition, through public-private 
partnerships. This represents a process of outsourcing the service, with 
the transfer of public funds to civil society organizations. These CSOs 
are mostly philanthropic entities of a Christian religious nature and 
with extensive involvement with city councilors and far-right political 
parties.

All these actions by Mayor Alvaro Damião (União Brasil) and Secretary 
Nathalia Araujo led the category to another strike and also to mobilize 
around the need to establish a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) 
on Education, whose main objective is to discover the real destination 
of public money.

The strike is not just a right, it has become a necessity for workers 
and the entire population. It becomes an example for all of Brazil in 
the fight against the precariousness and privatization of public education.

Involved in the struggle from the beginning, the OSL (Libertarian 
Socialist Organization) stands shoulder to shoulder in support of this 
battle!

ALL STRENGTH TO THE STRIKE IN BELO HORIZONTE EDUCATION!

FOR SELF-MANAGED POPULAR POWER!

Libertarian Socialist Organization
May 2026

https://socialismolibertario.net/trabalhadores-da-educacao-de-bh-aprovam-continuidade-da-greve-todo-apoio-a-mobilizacao/
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