No end in sight for Catholic schools fight

A long-running pay dispute between Queensland Catholic school staff and their employers looks set to drag on, with neither party willing to budge.

The Queensland Catholic Education Commission and the Independent Education Union failed to reach an agreement during their latest talks on Wednesday which followed strike action a fortnight ago.

"We didn't make any real progress on the major issues," the union's Queensland secretary, Terry Burke, told AAP a day after the talks.

The Fair Work Commission may now be called in to help resolve the dispute which centres around the union's claim that experienced Queensland teachers at the state's 300 Catholic schools are paid $6700 less than their NSW counterparts.

They have also raised issues with increasing workloads.

Staff are pushing for a 3.25 per cent pay rise, but employers are offering 2.5 per cent.

The QCEC have said the fact less than 17 per cent of the schools' 23,000-strong workforce took part in the February 25 strike showed the union was losing support.

However, Mr Burke said the commission was fudging the figures, saying there were 11,000 union members across the schools, and of the 8500 eligible to strike, about half did so.

"The employers would be telling a fib if they tried to suggest it's school as normal - it's not, they've got some real issues they're dealing with on a daily basis," he said.

Both parties are again due to meet on March 23 and the union says staff are unlikely to take further strike action before Easter.