Elbia Pereira

Elbia Pereira is a Uruguayan early childhood education teacher, civil servant, and trade unionist. From 2021 to 2025, she served as general secretary of the Intersyndical Plenary of Workers – National Confederation of Workers (; PIT-CNT), the first woman to hold that position.

Biography Elbia Pereira was born in the Puntas de Manga neighborhood of Montevideo, into a family of Brazilian origin. Her father was a carpenter and linotypist, and her mother a housewife.

She studied at the University of the Republic's Faculty of Economics and Administration, and then trained as a teacher, working for 10 years at Obras Sanitarias del Estado (OSE).

Pereira first worked at the school in Parada Olivera, and then in Palmitas, where she became the director of a full-time kindergarten. While working there, she was elected general secretary of the (; FUM-TEC). In November 2020, she was re-elected until 2023, marking her third term leading the union.

In November 2021, she became general secretary of the PIT-CNT, following the departure of to assume the union's presidency.

In January 2025, she resigned to assume a position as advisor on the (; CODICEN) of the National Administration of Public Education (; ANEP).