After 10 months of wage negotiations, Tasmania's education union says it will make a compromised "circuit breaker" offer to the state government on Monday.
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The Australian Education Union branch executive rejected the government's last offer, made on March 29.
On Friday Tasmania branch members agreed to the principals of a new offer, which will be tabled at a Department of Education negotiating meeting on Monday.
AEU Tasmania president Helen Richardson said the new offer included a shift from the union's wages claim of an annual 3 per cent pay rise, but would still prevent Tasmanian teachers from being the lowest paid, while also addressing key workload concerns.
"Teachers have continually put forward solutions that have been rejected by the state government, but we hope that this revised offer will provide the circuit breaker needed for the Premier to show leadership and significantly progress negotiations," she said.
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A government spokesman said it welcomed the advice of a new offer from the AEU and looked forward to reviewing it when presented.
"The government is committed to ensuring our state service employees including teachers receive fair and reasonable pay increases and improvements to employment terms and conditions," the spokesman said.
"It is our intention to continue to negotiate in good faith to achieve this outcome."
Meanwhile, a campaign for fair pay and workload fixes was rolled out on mobile billboards on Saturday, with television adverts to commence on Sunday.
Ms Richardson said teachers were doing everything to avoid further disruption to the school year.
"The ball is now in the Premier's court," she said.