VICTORIAN Catholic school teachers will join their state school counterparts in a mass strike next month if a long-running pay dispute with the government continues.
The government and the state teachers' union have agreed to resume talks on Thursday, January 31, in a bid to resolve the bitter dispute.
The Australian Education Union (AEU) Victorian branch said the move was positive, but plans for a mass teacher strike on February 14, as well as a ban on working beyond the 38-hour week, remain in place.
The Independent Education Union (IEU) says it has written to its members in Catholic education calling on them to join in the strike.
The IEU said the wages of Catholic school teachers were directly linked to the wages outcome in the government sector.
"We are hopeful that a positive outcome can be achieved on January 31, but the track record of this government so far has taught us not to hold our breath," the union's general secretary Debra James said.
"Despite promising to make Victoria's teachers the highest paid in Australia, the government has not yet moved from a policy of 2.5 per cent pay rises, contrary to outcomes negotiated for other public sector workers.
"It is insulting to our members to be starting the 2013 school year with no resolution to the stand-off, and a pay offer from the state government that devalues the work of all educators."
AEU Victorian branch president Meredith Peace said the union put a significantly revised offer of 4.2 per cent per year over three years to the Baillieu government in November but has yet to receive a formal response.
The government has long stood by its offer of an annual pay rise of 2.5 per cent with any further increases to be offset by productivity gains.
"The Baillieu government has dragged this dispute out for over two years by refusing to listen to the concerns of education staff, parents and the broader community," Ms Peace said in a statement on Thursday.
The Baillieu government, which has previously threatened legal action against the union, has been approached for comment.
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