A vote of no confidence will be moved against education union heads during a meeting to decide the fate of a controversial wage agreement.
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The motion will be discussed at a meeting of the Australian Education Union's state council and the no confidence is in the negotiating team, including state manager Roz Madsen and president Helen Richardson.
Hobart College AEU council member Peter Hicks said he would proceed with his motion at the meeting on Friday, despite a move by Ms Richardson to reject the offer.
"The deal is inappropriate and we need to know why they agreed to it," Mr Hicks said.
"We need to go back to the negotiating table with a team of negotiators."
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Mr Hicks said the motion would be brought to the council for: the union's failure to maintain existing conditions, for wilful and deliberate actions against sections of the membership and for acting beyond the perimeters set by the Tasmanian Branch Council, as adopted at an extraordinary meeting on May 3.
"Such failure to be accountable to the membership is an unparalleled and unethical example of governance," Mr Hicks said.
State manager Roz Madsen is in the firing line with some members keen to move against her because she is not a teacher or elected by the membership.
AEU life member and former teacher Peter Kearney condemned the actions of the union and the reversal of its support for the current deal on the table.
"This has been such a ball's up, there are grounds to say the [union] leaders should consider their positions. The way this has been handled has been appalling," he said.
Mr Kearney said the decision made by the union to not endorse an offer they had previously endorsed put them in a perilous position on the negotiating table.
He said the government could not now negotiate in good faith because of those actions.
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Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff has written to all teachers urging them to accept the government's offer.
"This agreement was unanimously endorsed by the AEU executive and 70 per cent of teachers," he told Parliament.
"I urge the union to please not lose this opportunity, our teachers and students deserve better."
Read the letter below:
Mr Hicks disputed Mr Rockliff's view in the letter that relief teachers in Tasmania were the highest paid in Australia at $488 per day for teachers at Band 1 Level 13.
"He is being so disingenuous because relief teachers here only get a minimum two hours callout," he said.
The AEU declined to comment on the council meeting but Ms Richardson has said she would move to reject the government's wages offer because of the cut to the pay of relief teachers.
"No decision on the offer has been made, but it is clear the government has failed to convince members that cutting relief teacher pay loading is acceptable, particularly when we have a relief teacher shortage crisis already in our schools and colleges," Ms Richardson said.
About 40 members of the AEU council are expected to attend the day-long meeting.
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