Western Bay of Plenty Post Primary Teachers' Association chairperson Jason Smythe says teachers across the region will recommence industrial action after rejecting the government's latest offer.

Secondary school teachers temporarily halted scheduled industrial action last Thursday because the government told them it had an offer that was worth looking at.

Jason says the government's offer did nothing to address teachers' concerns.

Teachers are asking for a four per cent pay rise and better working conditions.

The government's latest offer includes a 0.5 per cent pay increase in the first year, a 1.9 per cent increase in the second year, a one-off payment of $1000 and an additional 3000 middle management allowances worth $1000 each.
Jason says the offer is far from satisfactory.
'Our conditions are the students' learning conditions. That's why teachers are making a stand.”
Industrial action includes rostering home, banning meetings outside normal working hours and a ban on callback days.
Rostering home will ban teachers from teaching all Year 9 students on Wednesday and Year 11 students this Thursday.
Regular bans on teaching various year levels, excluding senior students, will continue until the end of term four.
Jason says the biggest impact on the education system will take place at the start of the 2011 school year.
The ban on callbacks prevents teachers from doing any work outside normal school time, so the weeks of planning teachers would normally carry out before the start of the new school year will not commence until the first day students arrive back.