The calls come after a meeting of the Australian Education Union’s Tasmanian branch executive on Friday.

AEU Tasmanian state manager Roz Madsen hoped a “much-improved” offer could be put to members early in 2019.

“The government made a take-it-or-leave-it offer without giving teachers at the table the opportunity to negotiate changes or receive further clarification or details and that’s what we need to happen now, as a matter of urgency,” Ms Madsen said.

Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff told The Examiner they had been negotiating in good faith with all public sector unions.

“The government’s Teachers Agreement offer to the Australian Education Union delivers a fair, reasonable and affordable 6 per cent pay rise over three years for teachers, and addresses the fundamental workload concerns that teachers have raised, including reducing face-to-face contact hours for primary teachers to the lowest in the country,” Mr Rockliff said.

“The government has continually shown its commitment to negotiate in good faith, including with this comprehensive revised offer.”

According to Ms Madsen, the union however still holds concerns around a lack of caps on class sizes, movement on the 2 per cent wage cap and a “significant lack of detail in the offer”.

AEU members held stop-work meetings across the state late last month as part of the public sector-wide campaign over conditions and a cap to wage increases.

The union is after an agreement that addresses workloads and provides a competitive salary, Ms Madsen told members at one such meeting in Launceston, and hoped the government would come to the negotiating table in “good faith” over their 2 per cent cap on wage increases.

Labor education spokesperson Michelle O’Byrne said the government had to use the time to “come up with a more reasonable response”.

“You can’t just keep saying ‘no, you can’t have it’, that just doesn’t cut it,” Ms O’Byrne added. “The government have to come to find a solution.”

“The government can’t say on one side, ‘the economy is brilliant’ … and on the other hand say, ‘but we have no money to pay decent wages’.”

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