ACT public school teachers are ramping up for their second wave of strike action as negotiations with the Government over pay disputes ''slow down''.
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The Australian Education Union says the Government has shown little progress in offering pay parity with NSW teachers, giving it no option but to reconsider rolling workforce stoppages.
ACT acting branch secretary Glenn Fowler said 15 of the union's executive members would meet on Saturday and his council would recommend they endorse further industrial action before the end of the school term.
The union has already implemented seven of the nine actions approved by Fair Work Australia, leaving workforce stoppages as their last option.
''The union is considering further stoppages of up to four hours as well as continuing to implement the workforce bans already in place,'' Mr Fowler said.
''We do not have any proposed dates yet, that will be the council's decision depending on what they think is appropriate.
''Obviously we do not want to cause any more disruption to schools but the executive committee may decide further action is necessary in order to make a point.''
Public sector teachers are already refusing to fill in fortnightly absence forms, boycotting the use of personal cash and cars for work purposes and have banned further uptake of new IT systems.
Mr Fowler said if the ACT Government was holding out on offering a higher pay packet on the back of NSW negotiations, which are so far capped at 2.5 per cent, it was wasting its time.
''History shows that attempts to cap public sector wages in the past have failed and there is every reason to believe that [NSW Premier] Barry O'Farrell's attempt will fail too,'' he said. ''To expect public sector workers like teachers to agree to what are, in effect, cuts to real wages is unduly optimistic.''
Meanwhile, ACT Catholic teachers have voted against taking industrial action as they too fight for pay parity with NSW.
The Independent Education Union has said the inequity that exists between the two states is even more absurd for the capital's Catholic teachers given they are both located within the same, Canberra-Goulburn, diocese.
The union's ACT organiser Jackie Groom said her members wanted their salaries equal to NSW levels in the first year of the agreement with a 3.5 per cent increase for the remaining two years.
Ms Groom said the Catholic Education Office would not make a final offer until it had seen the outcome of negotiations in the public sector.
''We have made some progress with pay rises in relation to principals and assistant principals but the sticking point continues to be the salaries of our remaining teachers in light of the ACT Government's offer to the AEU,'' she said.
''We have decided to continue with our negotiations but will meet early in Term 4 to discuss the progress of those negotiations and possible industrial action for the future.''