The Teachers' Union of Ireland has passed a motion instructing the union executive not to enter any further Croke Park II talks with the Government or the management side.
At the TUI conference in Galway, delegates also instructed the executive committee to reject any imposition of the Croke Park II proposals on members by the Government or the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
The motion directs the TUI executive to immediately ballot for a withdrawal from membership of ICTU if the proposals are imposed on the members.
It also instructs the executive to work with other unions opposed to Croke Park II to prevent its implementation.
During an hour-long debate, delegates voiced frustration and anger at the proposals.
The proposals would see teachers working extra hours, losing allowances, including supervision and substitution payments, and experiencing pay cuts in higher grades.
Earlier, the TUI general secretary warned that teachers may withdraw from activities previously carried out on a goodwill basis out of frustration at the demands of the new proposals.
The TUI is the first union to return a ballot result on the proposed public service agreement, as 86% of members overwhelmingly rejected it.
John MacGabhann accused the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform of treating public servants as if they are the enemy rather than the bulwark of the State.
He said that the department had been given what he called extravagant and excessive powers to regulate public services, and he described this as perverse.
Mr MacGabhann accused the Government of seeking bogus, oppressive and unnecessary productivity from teachers, and of ignoring the goodwill contributed freely by them.
Quinn heckled at INTO conference
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn was repeatedly heckled during his address to primary school teachers at their conference in Cork.
Delegates at Irish National Teachers' Organisation conference also held up red cards at the minister.
INTO President Anne Fay was forced to intervene to call for attention for Mr Quinn during his speech.
Incoming INTO President Brendan O'Sullivan said that it was clear from the minister's address to the conference that he is "totally out of touch" with teachers' concerns about the Croke Park proposals.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Miles Dungan, Mr O'Sullivan said that teachers are very angry.
He warned against interpreting the union executive's decision not to recommend either acceptance or rejection of the proposals as tactic approval.
The minister said he respects that public sector unions have to make their own decisions on the proposals.
Mr Quinn will also speak at the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland conference in Wexford this afternoon.
Both the INTO and the ASTI are currently balloting on the proposals.
Teachers have been angered by the Croke Park proposals, which include additional unpaid hours, increment freezes and pay cuts for some higher grades.
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