The meetings will be held between Tuesday and Thursday and will run for 30 minutes at every Government school.

The Australian Education Union has met branch representatives this week, telling them of the decision to hold the stop-work meetings in primary and secondary schools throughout Tasmania.

AEU state president Leanne Wright said teachers were angry that Elizabeth College would be forced to enter the Tasmania Tomorrow education reforms despite staff voting to stay out until 2011.

Staff at the college voted to stay out of the new system but were overruled by the principal and by Premier and Education Minister David Bartlett.

Ms Wright said the meetings would send a message to the Government.

"We're going to run 30-minute stop-work meetings around Tasmania in primary and secondary schools in support of our Elizabeth College members," Ms Wright said.

Parents would be informed of when the meetings would be run, and these were likely to mean a later school start time.

She hoped parents would be able to bring their children to school 30 minutes later on that day, but children would still be supervised at school if that was not possible.

Ms Wright said teachers would be asked to vote on three motions at the meetings:

That the Premier honour his commitment to allow Elizabeth College to stay out of Tasmania Tomorrow.

If that is ignored, then AEU members will have no confidence in the minister's handling of the issue.

Should the Premier continue to ignore the AEU's concerns, the AEU state council will be allowed to consider political action at the next state election.

Ms Wright said the union was in regular contact with the Premier's office but there was no movement on the issue.

"We're at a stalemate," she said.

The Elizabeth College issue is part of a wider campaign the union has been running against the Tasmania Tomorrow reforms.

The Premier has announced an action plan to review shared services, but Ms Wright said while the action plan covered some problems, it did not get to the heart of the issues the union had with the new system.

She said the problem of the statewide leadership structure in the Tasmanian Polytechnic and the clash of cultures between former college and TAFE staff needed urgent attention.