Teachers in Burlington are set to walk off the job. Thursday afternoon, they voted to strike.

The teachers union president says 95 percent of their membership voted in support of the strike, which is set to start next Wednesday. The union says all teachers in city schools will not be teaching.

The action comes after the school board imposed working conditions last week instead of continuing negotiations. The union is hoping that the city's school board will come back to the negotiating table and meet their demands for higher salary raises and lower personal contributions to health care. Teachers are also combating the district's desire to demand more personal duties during the workday, including lunch duty supervisions.

This marks the second year Burlington teachers have voted to strike.

"We do not take this action lightly. But given the board's haste in imposing terms of employment less than an hour after our contract expired last week, we want them to know how resolved and united we are in our quest for a contract that retains the best for Burlington's students," said Fran Brock, the president of the Burlington Education Association.

The average salary of teachers in the Queen City is nearly $69,000, according to a 2017 fact finder's report in a nearby district.

The school board here has said they simply can't afford teacher demands, citing teacher salary increases in the state of 74 percent over the past 10 years, but average Vermonter's have only seen 29 percent in salary raises.

The contract that was imposed by the Burlington School Board gives the district's 400 teachers a 2.4 percent increase for the current school year. That's an average raise of $1,702. The board says health care benefits will remain virtually unchanged, but will actually cost teachers up to $2,500 less due to drops in premiums.

Teachers may also be putting their pay on the line. Brock said it's up to the school board to decide whether or not their pay continues while they aren't working and on strike.